John Crompton Weems
John Crompton Weems (August 11, 1777January 20, 1862) was an American politician. Born in 1777 in Calvert County, Maryland, Weems attended St. John's College of Annapolis, Maryland, and engaged in planting. He was elected to the Nineteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Joseph Kent, was reelected to the Twentieth Congress, and served from February 1, 1826, to March 3, 1829. He is remembered for a speech defending the interstate slave trade. He resumed agricultural pursuits afterwards, and died on his plantation, "Loch Eden", in Anne Arundel County, Maryland. He is interred in a private cemetery on his estate. External links Weems Family papers at the University of Maryland Libraries References 1777 births 1862 deaths 19th-century American legislators Jacksonian members of the United States House of Representatives from Maryland