Education
Princeton University.
United States representative lawyer politician
Princeton University.
Born in Sussex County, New Jersey, Maxwell was graduated from Princeton College in 1792. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1797 and practiced in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He served as United States. Attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1801 to 1803.
Maxwell was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813).
He resumed the practice of law in Flemington, New Jersey, where he died March 16, 1816. He was interred in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Raritan Township, New Jersey.