Teunis G. Bergen

Teunis Garret Bergen ( * October 6, 1806 in Brooklyn, New York, † April 24, 1881 ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Teunis Garret Bergen was born about six years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Brooklyn and grew up there. He attended community schools and the Erasmus Hall Academy in Flatbush. He then worked in agriculture and went to a job as a surveyor after. Between 1836 and 1859 he was Town Supervisor of New Utrecht in Kings County. He took in the years 1846, 1867 and 1868 participated in the Constituent Assemblies of New York and a year before the outbreak of the Civil War at the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore and Charleston.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1864 he was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Martin Veal on March 4, 1865. Since he gave up for reelection in 1866, he retired after March 3 in 1867 from the Congress.

Then he was again engaged in agriculture and led field surveys at New Utrecht. In addition, he wrote literary and historical works. Bergen appeared as Ensign ( ensign ) in the 241st Regiment of the National Guard of New York, better known as Kings County Troop, and increased over time up to the Colonel on. He died on 24 April 1881 in Brooklyn and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery. His cousin was Congressman John T. Bergen.