Matthias J. Bovee

Matthias Jacob Bovee (* June 24, 1793 in Amsterdam, New York, † September 12, 1872 in Eagle, Wisconsin) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1835 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Matthias Jacob Bovee was born about a decade after the end of the Revolutionary War in Amsterdam in Montgomery County. He attended the village school in 1807 up to his father's death. After that, he taught at a school in winter and worked during the summer on the family farm. In 1815 he then went to commercial transactions. He had chaired the Town of Amsterdam and was sitting in the County Board of Supervisors. In 1826 he was elected to the New York State Assembly. He was a Trustee of the Village of Amsterdam in 1831. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1834 for the 24th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles McVean on March 4, 1835. He retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress.

After his return to Amsterdam he returned to commercial transactions. In June 1843 he moved to Milwaukee and was two months later at Eagle in Waukesha County, where he worked in agriculture. He was ten years justice of the peace. On September 12, 1872, he died in Eagle and was then buried in the Oak Ridge Cemetery.