Preceded by Martin Kalbfleisch Name Teunis Bergen Succeeded by Demas Barnes Children Garrett T Bergen Party Democratic Party | Political party Democratic Party Citizenship United States Role American Politician Resigned March 3, 1867 | |
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Born October 6, 1806
Brooklyn, New York ( 1806-10-06 ) Spouse(s) Elizabeth Roelof Van Brunt Bergen Profession farmer, surveyor, politician, writer, historian Died April 24, 1881, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States Books The Bergen Family: The Descendants of Hans Hansen Bergen of New York and Brooklyn, with Notes on Other Long Island Families | ||
Alma mater Erasmus Hall High School | ||
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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.
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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.
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.
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. 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).
Death
Bergen died in Brooklyn, Kings County, New York, on April 24, 1881 (age 74 years, 200 days). He is interred at Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, New York.
Credited Eponyms
New York City (NYC) Public School 9 in Brooklyn, NY (PS 9 Teunis G. Bergen) was named after Teunis G. Bergen. His name was also given to a street and subway station in Brooklyn off the 1, 2, and G trains.