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SHARPE, Peter (1777-1842)

Adams-Clay Republican of New York

3rd congressional district

Served in House 1823-1825

Total roll-call votes cast: 92

Note: This member has cast relatively few votes and so their ideological score may be unstable or inaccurate. Members who have cast at least 100 votes have more reliable scores.

Biography

A Representative from New York; born in New York, December 10, 1777; completed preparatory studies; member of the Columbia County Medical Society, 1807; alderman, New York, N.Y.; represented New York County as a member of the state assembly, 1814-1821, and served as speaker in 1821; delegate to the New York state constitutional convention, 1821; credentials of his election, as a Democratic Republican, to the Seventeenth Congress were presented, but he did not qualify, and on December 12, 1821, Cadwallader D. Colden successfully contested Sharpe's election; elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1825); unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Nineteenth Congress in 1824; died on August 3, 1842, in Brooklyn, N.Y.; interment in New York Marble Cemetery in New York, N.Y.; reinterment in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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