Roger Nelson (politician)

Roger Nelson ( * 1759 in Frederick, Maryland, † June 7, 1815 ) was an American politician. Between 1804 and 1810 he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Roger Nelson was born on the plantation Point of Rocks in Frederick County. He attended the common schools and then studied at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg. During the Revolutionary War he served in the Continental Army, in which he rose to brigadier general. At the battle of Camden, he was wounded. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​around 1785 admission to the bar he began in Taneytown and Frederick to work in this profession. He also held several local offices at that time.

At the same time struck Nelson a political career. In the years 1795, 1801 and 1802, he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. Then he was between November 1803 and November 1804 the State Senate. Nelson was a member of which was founded by President Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. After the death of Mr Daniel Hiester he was in the overdue election for the fourth seat of Maryland as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on November 6, 1804. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on 14 May 1810 Congress. There he was one of the members responsible for the implementation of the impeachment proceedings against the federal judge Samuel Chase.

Nelson's resignation took place after his appointment as a judge on the fifth (later sixth ) Judicial District of Maryland. He died on 7 June 1815 in Frederick.