John_C._Weems

John Crompton Weems

John Crompton Weems

American politician


John Crompton Weems (August 11, 1777  January 20, 1862) was an American politician.

Born in 1777[1] in Calvert County, Maryland, Weems attended St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland, and engaged in planting. He was elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Kent, was reelected to the Twentieth Congress, and served from February 1, 1826, to March 3, 1829. He is remembered for a speech defending the interstate slave trade.[2] He resumed agricultural pursuits afterwards, and died on his plantation, "Loch Eden", in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He is interred in a private cemetery on his estate.


References

  1. Rothman, Joshua D. (2021). The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. Basic Books. p. 135. ISBN 9781541616592. LCCN 2020038845.
More information U.S. House of Representatives ...



Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article John_C._Weems, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.