Dorrance Kirtland

Dorrance Kirtland (born July 28, 1770 in Coxsackie , Province of New York , † May 23, 1840 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Dorrance Kirtland was born and raised in Coxsackie about five years before the outbreak of the War of Independence . In 1789 he graduated from Yale College . He studied law , got his lawyer license, and then started practicing in Coxsackie. Between 1808 and 1838 he was guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Greene County .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional election of 1816 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Erastus Root on March 4, 1817 . He retired from the after March 3, 1819 Congress of.

Between 1828 and 1838 he was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas . He died in Coxsackie on May 23, 1840 and was buried in Old Coxsackie Cemetery .

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SURNAME	Kirtland, Dorrance
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 28, 1770
PLACE OF BIRTH	Coxsackie , New York
DATE OF DEATH	May 23, 1840
Place of death	Coxsackie , New York