John Van Buren (U.S. Representative)

John Van Buren ( born May 13, 1799 in Kingston, New York, † January 16, 1855 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1841 and 1843 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Van Buren was born shortly before the end of the 18th century in Kingston and grew up there. He graduated in 1818 from Union College in Schenectady. Van Buren studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice in Kingston. In 1831 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Between 1836 and 1841 he was a judge in Ulster County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1840 for the 27th Congress, he was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Rufus Palen on March 4, 1841. He retired after the March 3, 1843 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

After his time Congress he resumed his activities as a lawyer. Between 1846 and 1850 he was district attorney in Ulster County. He died on 16 January 1855 in Kingston, and was then buried in the Old Cemetery Houghtaling.