John A. Collier

Infobox_Congressman
name=John A. Collier


state=New York
district=21st
term=March 41831 - March 31833
preceded=Robert Monell
succeeded=Henry Mitchell
date of birth=November 131787
place of birth=Litchfield, Connecticut
date of death=March 241873
place of death=Binghamton, New York
spouse=
profession=
religion=
party=Anti-Masonic|

John Allen Collier (November 13, 1787 Litchfield, Litchfield County, Connecticut - March 241873 Binghamton, Broome County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He attended Yale College in 1803, then studied law at Litchfield Law School. He was admitted to the bar at Troy, New York in 1809, and commenced practice in Binghamton, New York. He was District Attorney of Broome County from 1818 to 1822.

He was elected as an Anti-Mason to the 22nd United States Congress, serving from March 41831 to March 31833. He was defeated for re-election.

He was New York State Comptroller from January 27, 1841, to February 7, 1842, elected by the New York State Legislature to fill the unexpired term of Bates Cooke. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1844 to the U.S. Congress. He was appointed a commissioner to revise the state statutes in 1847. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1848.

He was buried at the Spring Forest Cemetery in Binghamton.

He is the great-grandfather of United States Representative Edwin Arthur Hall.

ources

*CongBio|C000631
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9A0DE0DA1539EF34BC4D51DFB5668388669FDE] His obit, in NYT on March 25, 1873 (giving wrong years for end of Congress term, and comptrollership)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA34 Google Book] "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/colen-collingwood.html] Political Graveyard

External links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=19113] Find a Grave

Persondata
NAME=Collier, John Allen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=American politician
DATE OF BIRTH=November 13, 1787
PLACE OF BIRTH=Litchfield, Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH=March 24, 1873
PLACE OF DEATH=Binghamton, New York