Stevenson Archer (1786–1848)

Stevenson Archer ( * October 11, 1786 in Churchville, Harford County, Maryland, † June 26, 1848 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1811 and 1819 he represented two times the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stevenson Archer came from an illustrious political family: both his father John Archer (1741-1810) and his son Stevenson (1827-1898) represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives. He attended Nottingham Academy and then studied until 1805 at the Princeton College. After a subsequent law degree in 1808 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1809 and 1810 he sat in the House of Representatives of Maryland.

Following the resignation of Mr John Montgomery Archer was in 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 26 October 1811. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1817 in Congress. In this time the British -American War of 1812 was, at which he took part, despite his deputies work as paymaster of a militia unit. From 1813 to 1815 was Chairman of the Committee on Claims Archer; 1815 to 1817 he headed the committee to control expenditure of the Navy Department.

In 1817 Archer was a federal judge in Mississippi Territory. After almost a year, he returned to Maryland, where he practiced as a lawyer again. In 1818 he was again elected to Congress, where he was able to complete between 4 March 1819 and 3 March 1821 as the successor of Philip Reed, a further term of office. During this time he was again Chairman of the Committee for the control of the Navy Department. Since 1823 was Stevenson Archer judge in Baltimore and Harford County in; from 1844 he served as chief judge at the Maryland Court of Appeals. He died on June 26, 1848 on the premises Medical Hall near Churchville, where he was born.