David Newland was Speaker of the 3rd Legislative Assembly of the Wisconsin Territory.
21 Facts About David Newland
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David Newland became involved in politics and was elected to the North Carolina House of Commons in 1826, representing Burke County.
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David Newland would be re-elected for 1827,1828, and 1829.
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David Newland was appointed a Colonel in the North Carolina Militia sometime before 1830, and was made a Brigadier General in late 1832.
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David Newland was a supporter of Andrew Jackson in his bid for the presidency in 1828 and remained aligned with Democratic politics.
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In 1833, David Newland made his first bid for election to Congress.
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David Newland ran in North Carolina's 12th congressional district as an anti-nullification Jacksonian Democrat.
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David Newland came in third place, behind the incumbent pro-nullification Democrat Samuel Price Carson and National Republican James Graham, who won the seat.
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David Newland ran in support of Tennessee Senator Hugh Lawson White.
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The initial results appeared to show Graham with a narrow seven-vote margin of victory, but David Newland presented evidence that ballots had been left out of the count because they had been placed in the wrong ballot box.
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David Newland petitioned the United States House of Representatives to resolve the dispute.
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Ultimately, the House voted 114 to 87 that Graham was not elected, however the vote in favor of seating David Newland failed 99 to 100 and the seat was declared vacant in March 1836.
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David Newland moved to Wisconsin and settled near Blue River, in what was then part of Iowa County.
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David Newland again became involved with politics and, in June 1840, he was on the Democratic slate of candidates for the Legislative Assembly.
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David Newland was elected to represent Iowa County for the Third Legislative Assembly.
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David Newland served in that capacity for both sessions of the Third Assembly.
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David Newland was a candidate to be a delegate to Wisconsin's first constitutional convention in 1846, but was not elected.
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David Newland served on the board of directors of the Sheboygan and Fond du Lac Plank Road Company and, in 1853, was appointed harbor agent at Sheboygan.
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David Newland's death was ruled an accidental drowning by a Washington, DC, jury, but it was widely reported as suicide.
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David Newland married Cynthia Ann McDonald and had at least two children.
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Cynthia David Newland was a maternal aunt of famous sculptor Vinnie Ream.