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|birth_date=June 10, 1800
|death_date=December 16, 1863 (aged 63)
|death_place = [[Central City, Colorado]]
|restingplace = Central City Cemetery
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'''Nathaniel Albertson''' (June 10, 1800 – December 16, 1863) was a 19th-century American politician who served one term as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] from [[Indiana]] from 1849 to 1851.
==Biography ==
Born in [[Fairfax, Virginia]], Albertson moved to [[Salem, Indiana]], and engaged in agricultural pursuits.
He served as member of the State
He moved to Floyd County in 1835 and settled in Greenville, near New Albany, and resumed agricultural pursuits.
===Congress ===
Albertson was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[31st United States Congress|Thirty-first]] Congress (March 4, 1849 – March 3, 1851). As a congressman, he voted in favor of the [[Fugitive Slave Act of 1850|Fugitive Slave Act]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Image 15 of The Fugitive slave bill : its history and unconstitutionality : with an account of the seizure and enslavement of James Hamlet, and his subsequent restoration to liberty.|url=https://www.loc.gov/resource/llst.076/?sp=15&st=text|access-date=2022-01-14|website=Library of Congress}}</ref>
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1850 to the [[32nd United States Congress|Thirty-second]] Congress.
===Later career and death ===
He resumed agricultural pursuits.
He moved to [[Keokuk, Iowa]], in 1853 and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
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He settled in [[Central City, Colorado]], in 1860 and engaged in the hotel business.
He also became interested in mining.
He died in [[Central City, Colorado]], December 16, 1863.
He was interred in Central City Graveyard.
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