John Wurts

John Wurts ( born August 13, 1792 in Flanders, Morris County, New Jersey, † April 23, 1861 in Rome, Italy ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After the death of his father John Wurts came with his family first to Montville and then to Philadelphia. Until 1813, he studied at Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1816 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. In 1817 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; in 1820 he was a member of the State Senate. He was a member of the Democratic-Republican Party and joined in the 1820s, the movement around the späeteren President Andrew Jackson to.

In the congressional elections of 1824 Wurtz was the first electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Breck on March 4, 1825. Since he resigned in 1826 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1827. Between 1827 and 1831 Wurts was federal prosecutor. He sat in the City Council of Philadelphia and was from 1831 to 1858 president of the Delaware & Hudson Canal Co. In 1859 he went abroad for health reasons. He died on 23 April 1861 in Rome and was buried in Atlantic County in New Jersey.