Joseph F. Wingate

Joseph Ferdinand Wingate ( born June 29, 1786 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts; † in South Windsor, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1831 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Wingate received only a limited education and was then engaged in Bath in the trade. In the years 1818 and 1819 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. From 1820 to 1824 he was employed by the customs authorities at the port of Bath.

In the congressional elections of 1826 Wingate was the third electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1827, the successor of Ebenezer Herrick. After a re-election in 1828 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1831 two legislative sessions. These were overshadowed by discussions on the policy of the incumbent since 1829 President Andrew Jackson. It was about the implementation of the Indian Removal Act, which the President had carried out against a judgment of the Supreme Federal judge John Marshall.

After retiring from Congress, the trace of Joseph Wingate loses. He died in South Windsor; his exact date of death is not known.