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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJames LENT
(1782-1833)
LENT, James, a
Representative from New York; born in Newtown, Long Island (now a
part of the Borough of Queens), N.Y., in 1782; engaged in
mercantile pursuits in New York City; judge of Queens County and
served from February 5, 1823, to March 4, 1829; elected as a
Jacksonian to the Twenty-first and Twenty-second Congresses and
served from March 4, 1829, until his death in Washington, D.C.,
February 22, 1833; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of State (Twenty-second Congress); interment in the
Congressional Cemetery; reinterment in the Presbyterian Cemetery,
Newtown, Long Island, N.Y.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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