Peter Sharpe

He "was a Maiden-lane whip-maker, of the average intelligence of a mechanic",[1] and was an alderman of New York City.

Credentials of his election to the Seventeenth Congress were issued by the Secretary of State of New York but Sharpe did not claim or take the seat.

Cadwallader D. Colden successfully contested Sharpe's election and was seated on December 12, 1821.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election to the 19th United States Congress in 1824.

He died on August 3, 1842, in Brooklyn, New York, and was buried at the New York Marble Cemetery, but later re-interred in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.