Theodore Dwight (elder)

Theodore Dwight (* December 15 1764 in Northampton, Massachusetts, † June 12, 1846 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1806 and 1807 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Theodore Dwight was a cousin of Aaron Burr, who served as Vice President of the United States, 1801-1805, and the grandson of the missionary Jonathan Edwards. He attended the common schools and then studied law. After his made ​​in 1787 admitted to the bar he began in Haddam (Connecticut) to work in his new profession. In 1791 he moved his residence and his law practice to Hartford. There, he joined in the business press by issuing two newspapers.

Dwight was a member of the Federalist Party. Following the resignation of Congressman John Cotton Smith, he was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in the election due in Connecticut. There he finished between 1 December 1806 and 3 March 1807 Unopened legislature of his predecessor. In the regular congressional elections of 1806 he gave up another candidacy.

In the years 1814 and 1815 he was secretary at a conference in Hartford, on the discussed the New England States about a possible separation of the United States. Background was their opposition to the war of 1812. This step but was not completed due to lack of appropriate majorities. In 1815, Theodore Dwight moved to Albany in New York State, where he led the newspaper " Albany Daily Advertiser ," edited until 1817. Then he moved to New York City. He was 1817-1835 editor of the newspaper "New York Daily Advertiser ." He then returned for a few years to Hartford. Around the year 1843 he retired New York City, where he died in 1846.

His older brother Timothy was from 1795 until his death in 1817, President of Yale College.