Marius Schoonmaker

Marius Schoonmaker (born April 24, 1811 in Kingston , New York , † January 5, 1894 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Cornelius C. Schoonmaker was his grandfather.

Career

Marius Schoonmaker was born and raised in Kingston about a year before the outbreak of the British-American War . During this time he attended community schools, the Kingston Academy and then graduated from Yale College in 1830 . He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and then began practicing in Kingston. He sat in the New York Senate in 1850 and 1851 . Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party .

In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32nd Congress , Schoonmaker was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Herman D. Gould on March 4, 1851 . Since he on a run again in 1852 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1853 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he resumed his practice as a lawyer in Kingston. He served as an auditor in the New York State Canal Department in 1854 and 1855 . In 1854 he became superintendent in the Banking Department - a position he held until 1856. He was President of the Kingston Education Committee for nine years and President of the Village of Kingston in 1866, 1869, and 1870. In 1867 he took part as a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of New York. He was President of the Kingston Board of Directors . He died there on January 5, 1894 and was then buried in the Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 75 and 90.

Web links

• Marius Schoonmaker on Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography
• Marius Schoonmaker in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Marius Schoonmaker in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Marius Schoonmaker on The Political Graveyard website