Lewis Condict

Lewis Condict
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey
In office March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1817
Preceded by	William Helms
Succeeded by	Charles Kinsey
Constituency	At-large district (1811–13) 1st district (1813–15) At-large district (1815–17)
In office October 9, 1821 – March 3, 1833
Preceded by	Charles Kinsey
Succeeded by	Thomas Lee
Constituency	At-large district
Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly
In office 1807–1809
In office 1837–1838
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly
In office 1805–1809
In office 1837–1838
Morris County Sheriff
In office 1801–1803
Personal details
Born	Lewis Condict (1772-03-03)March 3, 1772 Morristown, Province of New Jersey, British America
Died	May 26, 1862(1862-05-26) (aged 90) Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Political party	Democratic-Republican Jacksonian Anti-Jacksonian Whig Constitutional Union
Education	University of Pennsylvania

Lewis Condict (March 3, 1772 – May 26, 1862) was a physician, and the United States representative from New Jersey. He was the 24th President of the Medical Society of New Jersey.

Biography

Born in Morristown in the Province of New Jersey, he attended the common schools, graduated from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1794, and commenced practice in Morristown. He was sheriff of Morris County from 1801 to 1803 and was a member of the commission for adjusting the boundary line between the States of New York and New Jersey in 1804. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly from 1805 to 1809 and served as speaker the last two years.

Condict was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth, Thirteenth, and Fourteenth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1817. He was president of the Medical Society of New Jersey in 1816 and 1819. Again elected as a Democratic-Republican in a special election to the Seventeenth Congress, he was then re-elected to the Eighteenth Congress. He was re-elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses and was re-elected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses, serving from October 9, 1821, to March 3, 1833. While in Congress he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business (Fourteenth Congress) and a member of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Fourteenth Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1832, and was elected trustee of Princeton College in 1827, and served in this capacity until 1861, when he resigned. He was one of the incorporators of the Morris and Essex Railroad Co. and became its first president in 1835. In 1837 and 1838 he was again a member of the State house of assembly, and served as speaker. He was a presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840. He was succeeded by William Wright as president of the railroad in 1843. In 1860, his name was on the letter that issued the call for the Constitutional Union Party Convention. He died in Morristown; interment was in the cemetery of the Presbyterian Church.

Legacy

Lewis Condict was a nephew of Silas Condict, a Continental Congressman from New Jersey.

References

• United States Congress. "Lewis Condict (id: C000668)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.