Jotham Post, Jr.

Jotham Post junior ( * April 4, 1771 in Westbury, New York, † May 15, 1817 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jotham Post Jr. was born about four years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War at Westbury and grew up there. He graduated in 1792 from Columbia College in New York City. Post studied medicine, but never practiced, instead, he was a drug importer based in New York City. He sat on the Board of Aldermen. Then he worked in 1795 and 1805-1808 as a deputy in the New York State Assembly. During this time he headed 1798-1802, the New York Hospital as director.

Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1812 post office was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Samuel L. Mitchill and William Paulding junior took on March 4, 1813 which previously together represented the second district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he resigned in 1814 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress. He died on 15 May 1817 in New York City.