John Test
John Test ( born November 12, 1771 in Salem, Salem County, New Jersey; † October 9, 1849 in Cambridge City, Indiana ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1831 he represented two times the state of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Even in his childhood John Test moved with his parents to Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, where he attended the public schools. He then moved to the Fayette County on. There he ran for several years the company Fayette chance Furnace. About Cincinnati (Ohio ), he came to Brookville, Indiana, where he operated a mill. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Brookville in this profession. In this city he held as a result, some local offices. Between 1816 and 1819 he was a judge for the third judicial district of Indiana.
Politically, test a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the 1820s, he first joined the faction to the future President Andrew Jackson. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was third in the newly created constituency of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took his seat on March 4, 1823. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1827 two legislative sessions. However, he represented during the current second term since 1825 the movement by President John Quincy Adams. So now he stood in opposition to Jackson.
In 1826 John was subject to test the independent candidate Oliver H. Smith. In the elections of 1828 he was elected as a member of the short-lived National Republican Party again in Congress, where he could spend another legislative period between March 4, 1829 to the March 3, 1831. There was discussed at this time violently on the politics of also in office since March 1829 President Andrew Jackson. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives test was Chief Judge of the Circuit Court Indiana Then he moved to Mobile, Alabama, where he practiced law. He died on October 9, 1849 near Cambridge City in Wayne County.