Nicholas D. Coleman

Nicholas Daniel Coleman ( born April 22, 1800 Cynthiana, Kentucky, † May 11, 1874 in Vicksburg, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1831 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Nicholas Coleman attended the public schools of his home and then the Transylvania College in Lexington. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the 1820s he joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party, founded in 1828 by this. Between 1824 and 1825 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Kentucky.

In the congressional elections of 1828 Coleman was in the second electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Chambers on March 4, 1829. Until March 3, 1831, he completed a term in Congress. 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.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Coleman moved to Vicksburg in Mississippi, where he practiced law. Between 1841 and 1844 he was also postmaster of his new hometown. Politically, he did not exercise any significant office more. He died on May 11, 1874 in Vicksburg.