Silas Betton

Silas Betton ( born August 26, 1768 in Londonderry, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; † January 22, 1822 in Salem, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1803 and 1807, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Silas Betton enjoyed a private school education. Thereafter he attended until 1787 Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new job in 1790 in Salem.

Politically, Betton member of the Federalist Party. Between 1797 and 1799 he was a member of the House of Representatives of New Hampshire; 1801 to 1803 he was a member of the State Senate. In the congressional elections of 1802, which were held all across the state, Betton was chosen as the candidate of his party for the first parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he entered on March 4, 1803, the successor of George B. Upham. After a re-election in 1804 Betton was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1807 two legislative sessions.

Between 1810 and 1811 he was again in the House of Representatives of his State. After that, he was from 1813 to 1818 as sheriff sheriff in Rockingham County. Silas Betton died on January 22, 1822 in Salem and was also buried there.

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