Peter H. Wendover

Peter Hercules Wendover ( born August 1, 1768 in New York City; † September 24, 1834 ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1821 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Hercules Wendover was born about seven years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in New York City and grew up there. He enjoyed a good education. After that, he held several public offices. He was in 1796 a member of the volunteer fire department of New York City. Wendover took in 1801 and 1821 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of New York. He sat 1804 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1814 Wendover was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Jotham Post junior and William Irving took on March 4, 1815 which previously together represented the second district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he resigned in 1820 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1821 out of the Congress. He then worked 1822-1825 as sheriff in Manhattan. He died on September 24, 1834 and was then buried in the Dutch Reformed Church Cemetery.