Nathaniel B. Borden

Nathaniel Briggs Borden ( born April 15, 1801 in Fall River, Massachusetts, † April 10, 1865 ) was an American politician. Between 1835 and 1843 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nathaniel Borden attended the district school of his home and the Plainfield Academy in Connecticut. Later he founded the company Pocasset Manufacturing Co. in his hometown of Fall River. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. In the years 1831 and 1834 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts. In the congressional elections of 1834, Borden was in the tenth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William Baylies on March 4, 1835. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1839 two legislative sessions. In 1838 he was not re-elected as a candidate of the Whig Party, which he had since joined.

In the elections of 1840 Borden was elected as a candidate of his new party again in the tenth district of his state in Congress, where he replaced Henry Williams again on March 4, 1841 which was two years before become his successor. Until March 3, 1843, he could spend another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. This period was characterized by the tensions between President John Tyler and the Whigs. It was also at that time already been discussed about a possible annexation of the independent Republic of Texas since 1836 by Mexico.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives sat Nathaniel Borden his political career continued at the state level. Between 1845 and 1848 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate and in 1851 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives of his State. From 1856 to 1857 he served as mayor of Fall River; in 1864 he was again a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Professionally, he engaged in banking and in the railway business. Borden became president of two banks in Fall River and the Fall River Railroad Co. He died on 10 April 1865 in his hometown.