Silas Talbot

Silas Talbot ( born January 11, 1751 Dighton, Briston County, Massachusetts, † June 30, 1813 in New York City ) was an American soldier and politician. Between 1793 and 1795 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Silas Talbot attended preparatory schools and was then for some time sailor on a coastal freighter. Then he worked in Providence (Rhode Iceland ) in the trade. During the Revolutionary War he first served in the Continental Army, in which he brought it up in 1778 to lieutenant colonel. From 1779 he served in the Continental Navy, later the United States Navy emerged from the. In November 1780, he fell into British captivity, from which he was released a year later in a prisoner exchange again. After his return to the United States Talbot lived first in Philadelphia (Pennsylvania) and then in Albany, New York. There he worked in agriculture. Politically, he was a supporter of the federal government under President George Washington (Pro - Administration Group ). In the years 1792 and 1793, he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1792 Talbot was elected in the then newly created tenth electoral district of New York at the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1793. Until March 3, 1795 he was able to complete a term in Congress. Between 1798 and 1801 he served as captain of an officer in the U.S. Navy. There he commanded the USS Constitution. Silas Talbot died on June 30, 1813 in New York, where he was also buried.