Jacob Crocheron | |
State: | New York |
District: | 2nd |
Party: | Jacksonian |
Term Start: | March 4, 1829 |
Term End: | March 3, 1831 |
Preceded: | John J. Wood |
Succeeded: | John T. Bergen |
Office2: | Sheriff of Richmond County |
Term2: | 1821 |
Term3: | 1811 |
Term4: | 1802 |
Birth Date: | 23 August 1774 |
Birth Place: | Staten Island, Province of New York, British America |
Death Place: | Staten Island, New York, U.S. |
Jacob Crocheron (August 23, 1774 – December 27, 1849) was an American farmer and law enforcement officer who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York, United States from 1829 to 1831.
He was the brother of Henry Crocheron.
Born on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, Crocheron engaged in agricultural pursuits.Sheriff of Richmond County in 1802, 1811, and again in 1821.
Crocheron was a presidential elector in the 1836 presidential election.[1]
Crocheron was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831).
He died in Richmond County, Staten Island, on December 27, 1849.He was interred in St. Andrew's Churchyard, Staten Island, New York.