Johnathan McCarty

Johnathan McCarty (* August 3, 1795 in Culpeper County, Virginia; † March 30, 1852 in Keokuk, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Johnathan McCarty came in 1803 with his father in the Franklin County in Indiana. He attended the public schools of his old and new home. Later he was engaged in trade. At the same time he began a political career. In 1818 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Indiana. Around the same time he moved to Connersville. From 1819 to 1827 McCarty was usher at the local district court.

Politically, McCarty joined in the 1820s, the movement to Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. In the congressional elections of 1830 he was in the third electoral district of Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Test on March 4, 1831. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 three legislative periods. These were dominated by discussions on the politics of the now elected president Andrew Jackson. It was about the controversial implementation of the Indian Removal Act, which Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and banking policy of the President. Since 1833, Johnathan McCarty represented the then newly created fifth district of his state. In addition, he left during his second term in Congress, the Democratic Party and joined the opposition to President Jackson to. Later he became a member of the Whig Party, founded in 1835.

1836 McCarty has not been confirmed again. Four years later he was in the presidential election of the electors of the Whig Party, the William Henry Harrison elected president. Later he moved to Keokuk, Iowa, where he died on 30 March 1852.