{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (1802–1876)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=June 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = David Austin Starkweather | image = David Austin Starkweather (1904) (cropped).png | caption = Starkweather in 1904 publication | state1 = [[Ohio]] | district1 = [[Ohio's 18th congressional district|18th]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1839 | term_end1 = March 3, 1841 | preceded1 = [[Matthias Shepler]] | succeeded1 = [[Ezra Dean]] | term_start2 = March 4, 1845 | term_end2 = March 3, 1847 | preceded2 = [[Ezra Dean]] | succeeded2 = [[Samuel Lahm]] | order3 = 8th | office3 = United States Ambassador to Chile | term_start3 = November 22, 1854 | term_end3 = August 26, 1857 | preceded3 = [[Balie Peyton]] | succeeded3 = [[John Bigler]] | appointer3 = [[Franklin Pierce]] | state_house4 = Ohio | district4 = [[Stark County, Ohio|Stark County]] | term_start4 = December 2, 1833 | term_end4 = December 6, 1835 | alongside4 = John Brown | preceded4 = Thomas Blackburn<br />John Grubb | succeeded4 = Thomas Blackburn<br />H. Stidger | state_senate5 = Ohio | district5 = [[Stark County, Ohio|Stark County]] | term_start5 = December 5, 1836 | term_end5 = December 2, 1838 | preceded5 = [[Matthias Shepler]] | succeeded5 = [[Jacob Hostetter Jr.]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1802|1|21}} | birth_place = [[Preston, Connecticut]], U.S. | death_date = {{death date and age|1876|7|12|1802|1|21}} | death_place = [[Cleveland]], Ohio, U.S. | resting_place = | party = [[United States Democratic Party|Democratic]] | spouse = | children = 4 | alma_mater = [[Williams College]] }}
'''David Austin Starkweather''' (January 21, 1802 – July 12, 1876) was an American lawyer and politician who was a [[U.S. representative]] from [[Ohio]] and a U.S. diplomat. He served two non-consecutive terms in the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] in the mid-19th century and was United States Ambassador to Chile during the presidency of [[Franklin Pierce]].
==Early life and career == Starkweather was born in [[Preston, Connecticut]] on January 21, 1802. He graduated from [[Williams College]] and studied law with his brother in [[Cooperstown, New York]].<ref name="landmarks">{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/oldlandmarksofca00dann/page/254/mode/2up |title=Old Landmarks of Canton and Stark County, Ohio |year=1904 |editor=John Danner |pages=254–255 |via=[[Archive.org]] |access-date=2023-09-08 |oclc=79257924}}{{Open access}}</ref> He was admitted to the bar in 1825, establishing a practice in [[Mansfield, Ohio]]. He located in [[Canton, Ohio]] in 1828.<ref name=landmarks/>
==Political career == He was a judge in one of the higher courts in [[Stark County, Ohio]]. He was a member of the [[Ohio House of Representatives]] from 1833 to 1835, and a member of the [[Ohio Senate]] from 1836 to 1838. He was a representative of the Democrats in Congress from Ohio from 1839 to 1841 and again from 1845 to 1847. In his first term, he was a member of the Committee on Roads and Canals, and a member of the Committee on Invalid Pensions the second term.<ref name=landmarks/> He was chosen a [[presidential elector]] in 1848 for [[Lewis Cass|Cass]]/[[William Orlando Butler|Butler]],<ref>[[#taylor1899|Taylor 1899]] : 255</ref> and served as U.S. envoy to Chile from 1854 to 1857. He lost election to [[Ohio's 18th congressional district]] in 1860.
==Death== Starkweather died of paralysis at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Brinsmade, in [[Cleveland]], Ohio, July 12, 1876. He had three daughters and one son.<ref name=landmarks/>
==References== {{reflist}} {{refbegin}} * {{congbio|S000813}} * {{cite book | last = Starkweather | first = Carlton Lee | title = A brief genealogical history of Robert Starkweather of Roxbury and Ipswich, Massachusetts | location = Auburn, N.Y. | publisher = Press of Knapp, Peck and Thomson | year = 1904 | oclc = 16504739 }} *{{cite book |title=Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... |first1=William Alexander |last1=Taylor |first2=Aubrey Clarence |last2=Taylor |year=1899 |publisher=State of Ohio |volume=1 |ref=taylor1899|page=255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ztegAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA255}} {{refend}}
==External links== {{commons category}} {{Portal|Biography|Politics}} * {{Find a Grave}}
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