Peter Carleton

Peter Carleton ( born September 19, 1755 in Haverhill, Essex County, Massachusetts, † April 29, 1828 in Landaff, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1807 and 1809 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Carleton attended the common schools and worked in agriculture. During the Revolutionary War he was a soldier in a regiment from Massachusetts. Around the year 1789 drew Carleton after Landaff, New Hampshire. In his new home state, he was 1790 Delegate a meeting to revise the State Constitution in the year.

Carleton was a member of, founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the years 1803 and 1804 he was a member of the House of Representatives from New Hampshire, from 1806 to 1807 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1806, which were held all across the state, Carleton was elected for the first parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1807, the successor of Silas Betton of the Federalist Party. Until March 3, 1809, he completed a term in Congress.

After the end of his time in Congress, Peter Carleton is no longer politically have appeared. He died in April 1828 in Landaff, and was also buried there.