Peter Sharpe

Peter Sharpe ( born December 10, 1777 New York, † August 3, 1842 in Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician. He represented 1821 and 1823-1825 the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Sharpe was born about one and a half years after the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in New York and grew up there. He attended the common schools. In 1807 he was a member of the Columbia County Medical Society. About this is nothing more known of his private life. He pursued a political career. As Assistant Secretary ( alderman ), he worked in New York City. He sat 1814-1821 in the New York State Assembly. Last year, he held there the office of speakers and participated in the Constitutional Convention of New York. In the congressional elections of 1820 Sharpe was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded James Guyon junior and Silas Wood took on March 4, 1821 which previously together represented the first district in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, Cadwallader D. Colden could contest on December 12, 1821 whose election successfully on the basis of incorrect application. During this time Sharpe was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jeremiah H. Pierson on March 4, 1823. As a result of fragmentation of his party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829) changed his political allegiance to the Adams - Clay Federalist. Since he suffered a defeat in 1824 with his third term, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress. He died on August 3, 1842 in Brooklyn. His body was first buried at the New York Marble Cemetery, but later reburied at the Green-Wood Cemetery.