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Teunis Garret Bergen (October 6, 1806 – April 24, 1881) was an American politician and a United States Representative from New York. ==Biography== Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bergen was the son of Garrett and Jane Wyckoff Bergen and the second cousin of John Teunis Bergen, also a U. S. Representative from New York. He attended the common schools and Erasmus Hall Academy (in Flatbush). He married Elizabeth Roelof Van Brunt on December 19, 1827, and they had one son, Garrett T. Bergen.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.geni.com/people/Tuenis-Bergen/6000000010849108210 )〕 Bergen engaged in agricultural pursuits and surveying, and was supervisor of New Utrecht, Kings County, New York from 1836 to 1859. He was a member of the New York constitutional conventions in 1846, 1867, and 1868, and was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore and Charleston in 1860.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bergan-berkstresser.html )〕 Bergen was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress and served as U. S. Representative for the second district of New York holding office from March 4, 1865 to March 3, 1867.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/teunis_bergen/401394 )〕 He was not a candidate for renomination in 1866 and resumed agricultural pursuits and surveying near New Utrecht, and also engaged in literary and historical work. Having served as ensign, captain, adjutant, and lieutenant colonel, Bergen was colonel of the Two Hundred and Forty-first Regiment, New York State Militia (known as Kings County Troop). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Teunis G. Bergen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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