Gabriel Christie (Maryland politician) explained

Gabriel Christie
State:Maryland
Term Start:March 4, 1799
Term End:March 3, 1801
Predecessor:William Matthews
Successor:John Archer
Term Start1:March 4, 1793
Term End1:March 3, 1797
Predecessor1:Upton Sheredine
Successor1:William Matthews
Birth Date:November 29, 1756
Birth Place:Perryman, Maryland, U.S.
Death Date:April 1, 1808
Death Place:Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.
Resting Place:Old Spesutia Cemetery
Perryman, Maryland, U.S.
Party:Anti-Administration (until 1795)
Democratic-Republican (from 1795)

Gabriel Christie (November 29, 1756 – April 1, 1808) was an American political leader from Perryman, Maryland.

He was born in Perryman. He served in the Maryland militia during the American Revolution. He served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates and on a commission for straightening roads.

He represented the sixth district of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797, and again from 1799 to 1801. The 6th district that he represented was in the north-east corner of Maryland, bordering Pennsylvania and Delaware, and did not cover any of the area that had been in the sixth district before the 1792 redistricting.[1] By his second term in congress he is generally identified as a Democratic-Republican.

In 1800–1801 he served as a commissioner of Havre de Grace. He served in the Maryland State Senate (1802–1806). When Christie died in 1808 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was buried in Old Spesutia Cemetery, St. George's Churchyard in Perryman.

Notes and References

  1. Atlans of Political Parties in Congress, pp. 71–72.