Tristam Burges
Tristam Burges ( born February 26, 1770 in Rochester, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † October 13, 1853 in a suburb of Providence, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1825 and 1835, he represented the State of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Tristam Burges was the great- uncle of Theodore F. Green, who was from 1933 to 1936 governor of Rhode Iceland and represented that State from 1937 to 1961 in the U.S. Senate. He attended the public schools of his home and then broke off a part thereof medical school after the death of his father. Then he studied until 1796 at Brown University in Providence. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1799 admitted to the bar he began in Providence to work in his new profession.
Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In 1811 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Rhode Iceland. In 1815 he served as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of his State Chairman. Then he taught the trade rhetoric at Brown University. In the 1820s Burges joined the opposition to the future President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic party and became in the 1830s a member of that emerge from the opposition Whig Party.
Burges in 1824 was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington. There he took over from the March 4, 1825 Samuel Eddy, whom he had defeated in the election. After four elections he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1835 five legislative sessions. Between 1825 and 1827 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with pensions for veterans of the American Revolution; 1825 to 1829 he was also a member of the Committee on the pension provision of military personnel. In addition, he was in the years 1829 to 1831 in the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, which was responsible for claims from the time of the Revolutionary War. From 1831 to 1835 he sat on the Committee on disability pensions.
After he was not confirmed in the elections of 1834 and its seat was awarded to William Sprague, Burges resigned from the Congress on March 3, 1835. In 1836 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of the governor of Rhode Iceland. Then again Burges worked as a lawyer. He died in 1853 at his estate in Providence.