Nathan Appleton

Nathan Appleton ( born October 6, 1779 New Ipswich, Hillsborough County, New Hampshire; † July 14, 1861 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1831 and 1833, and again in 1842 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathan Appleton was a cousin of Congressman William Appleton (1786-1862) and the father of the writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1807-1882 ). He attended the common schools and studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover. Later he worked with his brother in the importing business in Boston. Appleton is one of the founders of the cotton mills in Waltham. In 1821, he was also involved in the founding of the city of Lowell. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1815 and 1827 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the National Republican Party. Later he joined the Whig Party, founded in 1835.

In the congressional elections of 1830 Appleton was the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin Gorham on March 4, 1831. Since he resigned in 1832 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1833. Since the inauguration of President Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

Following the resignation of Mr Robert Charles Winthrop Appleton was chosen as the candidate of the Whigs in the overdue election for the first seat of his state as his successor in Congress, where he took up his new mandate on June 9, 1842. He practiced this but only for a few months until his resignation on 28 September in the same year. After the final end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Nathan Appleton worked in retail. He died on 14 July 1861 in Boston.