John McKeon

John McKeon ( born March 29, 1808 in Albany, New York, † November 22, 1883 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1835-1837 and 1841-1843 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John McKeon was born about four years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Albany. He attended private schools. He then studied law at Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City, where in 1828 he graduated. He was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in New York City after that. From 1832 to 1834 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

Politically, McKeon on the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1834 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng, Campbell P. White, John J. Morgan and Charles G. Ferris took on March 4, 1835 which previously together represented the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He suffered in 1836 during his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1837 from the Congress of. After the founding of the Democratic Party, he joined this. In the congressional elections of 1840 he was re-elected in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Moses Hicks Grinnell, Edward Curtis, Josiah O. Hoffman and James Monroe on March 4, 1841 which previously together the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives representing. In 1842, he suffered another defeat and retired after the March 3, 1843 from the Congress of.

He then worked 1846-1850 as district attorney in Manhattan. President Franklin Pierce appointed him on July 10, 1854 United States District Attorney for the Southern District of New York - a position which he held until January 7, 1858. McKeon served as district attorney in New York City from November 1881 until his death on 22 November 1883. His body was interred in the family vault at St. Patrick 's Cathedral on Mott Street.