Joshua Sands (politician) Council of Appointment in 1796. He vacated his seat in the Senate on April 26, 1797 when President John Adams appointed him Collector of the Port of New York. He held this office until July 9, 1801, when he was removed by President Thomas Jefferson. He was elected as a Federalist to the Eighth Congress, and served from March 4, 1803 to March 3, 1805. He was President of the board of trustees of the Village of Brooklyn in 1824. He was again elected to the 19th United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1827.
Solar eclipse of March 14, 1801 showed about up to 25-30% obscurity in Antarctica. The greatest eclipse was hundreds of miles (or kilometers) offshore Antarctic Peninsula at 61.2 S, 40.6 EW at 15:45:35 UTC (6:13 PM local time). The subsolar marking was in Brazil inside the Amazon Rainforest around the Amazon River. Solar eclipse of March 14, 1801 A partial solar eclipse occurred on March 14, 1801 just days before autumn (or fall). A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. A partial solar eclipse occurs