John Noyes

John Noyes ( born April 2, 1764 in Atkinson, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, † October 26, 1841 in Putney, Vermont ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the state of Vermont in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Noyes attended private schools and studied until 1795 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. Until 1799, he was then himself worked as a teacher at the Chesterfield Academy and at Dartmouth College. One of his pupils there was Daniel Webster. Noyes then studied theology and in 1800 moved to Brattleboro in Vermont, where he worked in the trade.

Noyes was a member of the Federalist Party. Between 1808 and 1810, and again in 1812 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Vermont. In 1812 he established himself in Dummerston, where he was also engaged in the trade. In the following years, he held several local offices in Vermont. In the congressional elections of 1816, which were held all across the state of Vermont, he was elected for the sixth seat in parliament of his country in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he met on March 4, 1815 the successor of Ezra Butler. But until March 3, 1817, he graduated only one term in Congress.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives to Noyes dedicated back his earlier activities in the trade. In 1819 he retired to retire to a farm near Putney, where he died in October 1841.