William Burleigh

William Burleigh (* October 24, 1785 in Northwood, Rockingham County, New Hampshire; † July 2, 1827 in South Berwick, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1788, William Burleigh moved with his parents to Gilmanton. There he attended the public schools. Then he himself began to teach for a few years as a teacher. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1815 admitted to the bar he began in South Berwick, which at that time was still part of Massachusetts to practice in his new profession. After the founding of Maine in connection with the Missouri Compromise of 1820 Burleigh's home fell to the new state.

Politically, Burleigh member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the 1820s he joined the Group in order to later President John Quincy Adams. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was the first electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1823, the successor of Joseph Dane. After two re- elections he could remain until his death on July 2, 1827 in Congress. During this time he witnessed the violent political clashes between the supporters of his party and those of Andrew Jackson. From Jackson's partisans, the Democratic Party was a little later. Between 1825 and 1827 Burleigh was chairman of the committee to monitor the expenditure of the Ministry of Finance.

William Burleigh was the father of John H. Burleigh (1822-1877), who also should represent the state of Maine in Congress 1873-1877.