Peter Joseph Wagner

Peter Joseph Wagner ( born August 14, 1795 in Palatine, New York, † September 13, 1884 in Fort Plain, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Joseph Wagner was born about two weeks after the conclusion of the Treaty of Greenville in Wagner's Hollow in the Town of Palatine in Montgomery County, where he spent the first few years. The family then moved in 1805 to Fort Plain. There he completed his preparatory studies. He visited in the years 1810 and 1811, the Fairfield Academy. In 1816, he graduated from Union College in Schenectady. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in September 1819 and then began practicing in Fort Plain. He also worked in agriculture and pursued banking transactions.

In 1834 he ran unsuccessfully for the 24th Congress. Politically he belonged to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1838, for the 26th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Edwards on March 4, 1839. He retired after the March 3, 1841 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the U.S. War Department.

After his Congresses time he went to May 1873 in Fort Plain back to his work as a lawyer after when he went into retirement. On September 13, 1884, he died there and was buried in the same cemetery.