Theodoric R. Westbrook

Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook (born November 20, 1821 in Fishkill , New York , † October 6, 1885 in Troy , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook was born in Fishkill about six and a half years after the end of the British-American War . He attended community schools and graduated in 1838 at Rutgers College in New Brunswick ( New Jersey ). Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and then began practicing in Kingston , Ulster County . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1852 for the 33rd Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eleventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Josiah Sutherland on March 4, 1853 . Since he on a run again in 1854 renounced, he left the after 3 March 1855 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he went back to his practice as a lawyer in Kingston. In 1873 he was elected a judge on the New York Supreme Court . He died while serving as a judge on October 6, 1885 in Troy and was then buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery , Kingston.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 75 and 93.

Web links

• Theodoric R. Westbrook in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Theodoric R. Westbrook in the database of Find a Grave (English)