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.

Lewis Condict
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey
In office
March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1817
Preceded byWilliam Helms
Succeeded byCharles Kinsey
ConstituencyAt-large district (1811–13)
1st district (1813–15)
At-large district (1815–17)
In office
October 9, 1821 – March 3, 1833
Preceded byCharles Kinsey
Succeeded byThomas Lee
ConstituencyAt-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
DiedMay 26, 1862(1862-05-26) (aged 90)
Morristown, New Jersey, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic-Republican
Jacksonian
Anti-Jacksonian
Whig
Constitutional Union
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania

Biography

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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

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

References

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  • United States Congress. "Lewis Condict (id: C000668)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's at-large congressional district

March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813
Succeeded by
Preceded by
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's 1st congressional district

March 4, 1813 – March 3, 1815
Succeeded by
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Preceded by
Seat restored
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's at-large congressional district

March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1817
Succeeded by
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New Jersey's at-large congressional district

October 9, 1821 – March 3, 1833
Succeeded by