Solomon Sibley

Solomon Sibley ( October 7, 1769 in Sutton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † April 4, 1846 in Detroit, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1820 and 1823 he represented the Michigan Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Solomon Sibley was the father of Henry Hastings Sibley (1811-1891), who was from 1858 to 1860 governor of Minnesota and had front acts as a convention delegate for the Wisconsin and Michigan Territory. After primary school Sibley studied until 1794 at the College of Rhode Iceland, which later became Brown University in Providence. Following law school and its place in the year 1795 admission to the bar he began to work in his new profession in Marietta in the former Northwest Territory. Today, the city is located in the state of Ohio. In 1797 he moved to Detroit, where he continued to work as a lawyer. At first he was one of only two lawyers.

At the same beat Sibley a political career. In 1799 he was elected to the Parliament of the Northwest Territory. In 1806 he was mayor of the city of Detroit. During the British - American War of 1812, he participated in the unsuccessful defense of Detroit. Between 1814 and 1817 he was auditor in the Michigan Territory. Between 1815 and 1823 he also served as a federal prosecutor in the territory.

Following the resignation of the Congress delegates William Woodbridge Sibley was at the due election as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 20 November 1820. After a re-election at the regular congressional elections of 1820 he was able to represent the Michigan Territory until March 3, 1823 U.S. House of Representatives. During this time he acted together with Lewis Cass with the native Indians, a peace treaty from. 1822 Sibley waived on a bid again for Congress.

In 1824 he was appointed by President James Monroe Judge of the Supreme Court of its territory. He served as Chief Justice even its chairman. This post he held until 1837; then he had to resign because of a deafness. In the following years he worked again as a lawyer in Detroit. There he is on 4 April 1846, died. Solomon Sibley was married to Sarah Whipple Sproat (1782-1851), with whom he had eight children, including the above-mentioned son Henry.

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