Richard Coulter (U.S. politician)

Richard Coulter (* March 1788 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, † April 21, 1852 in Greensburg, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1827 and 1835, he represented the state of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Richard Coulter attended Jefferson College in Washington ( Pennsylvania). After a subsequent law degree in 1811 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Greensburg to work in this profession. Between 1816 and 1820 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. 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.

In the congressional elections of 1826 Coulter was in the 17th electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George Plumer on March 4, 1827. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1835 four legislative sessions. From 1833 onwards, he held there the 19th district of his state. 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.

In 1834, Coulter was not re-elected. Since 1846 until his death on April 21, 1852 in Greensburg, he was a judge of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.