John Westbrook Hornbeck

John Westbrook Hornbeck ( born January 24, 1804 in Montague, Sussex County, New Jersey; † January 16, 1848 in Allentown, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. In the years 1847 and 1848 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hornbeck attended the public schools of his home and then to 1827 the Union College in Schenectady (New York). After a subsequent law degree in 1829 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in 1830 to work in Allentown in this profession. Between 1836 and 1839 he was a deputy district attorney in Lehigh County. Politically, he was a member of the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1846 Hornbeck was in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrats Jacob Erdman on March 4, 1847. This mandate he was able to exercise until his death on 16 January 1848. During his time as an MP, he headed the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. His tenure was also marked by the events of the Mexican-American War.