Background
Wheaton, Horace was born on February 24, 1803 in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
United States representative politician
Wheaton, Horace was born on February 24, 1803 in New Milford, Litchfield County, Connecticut, United States.
He received a limited schooling, was graduated from Pompey Academy, engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1834.
He was one of the commissioners to build a railroad between Syracuse and Utica, and was postmaster of Pompey from 1840 to 1842. He was supervisor and city treasurer of Pompey, and was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1847. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1846 and that year moved to Syracuse.
He was mayor of Syracuse from 1851 to 1853 and city treasurer in 1857 and 1858.
He engaged in hardware, saddlery, and mercantile pursuits, and in 1882 died in Syracuse. Interment was in Oakwood Cemetery.
Member of New York State Assembly, 1834. Member United States House