John H. Brockway

John Hall Brockway ( born January 31, 1801 in Ellington, Connecticut, † July 29, 1870 ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1843 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, John Brockway attended until 1820, the Yale College and then became a teacher himself. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1823 admitted to the bar he began in Ellington to work in his new profession. Politically, he was in opposition to President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. Therefore, it was mid-1830s a member of the Whigs.

Between 1832 and 1838 Brockway was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Connecticut; in 1834 he was in the state Senate. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was in the sixth constituency of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Orrin Holt on March 4, 1839. After a re-election in 1840 Brockway was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1843 two legislative sessions. These were overshadowed by the conflict between his party and President John Tyler, the more and more distant from the Whig Party and the Democrats approached. With the end of the legislature in March 1843, sixth district was dissolved and reactivated only in the year 1933.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1849 to 1867 Brockway was district attorney in Tolland County. Then he withdrew into retirement. John Brockway died in July 1870 in his home town of Ellington.