- Peter Sharpe
Peter Sharpe (
December 10 ,1777 New York City -August 3 ,1842 Brooklyn, New York ) was an American politician who served as aUnited States Representative fromNew York .Life
He "was a Maiden-lane
whip -maker, of the average intelligence of a mechanic" [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C02E7D91631EF34BC4D52DFB366838D679FDE&oref=slogin] NYT on May 15, 1866] , and was an alderman of New York City.He was a member from New York County of the
New York State Assembly in 1814-15 and from 1816 to 1821, and was Speaker in 1820-21. He was a delegate to theNew York State Constitutional Convention of 1821.Credentials of his election as a Democratic-Republican to the
Seventeenth United States Congress were presented but he did not qualify, and onDecember 12 ,1821 ,Cadwallader D. Colden successfully contested Sharpe's election. Sharpe was elected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to theEighteenth United States Congress and served fromMarch 4 ,1823 toMarch 3 ,1825 . He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Nineteenth Congress in 1824.He died on
August 3 ,1842 , inBrooklyn, New York , and was buried at theNew York Marble Cemetery , but later re-interred at theGreen-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.References
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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/sharpe.html] Political Graveyard
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