William H. Robertson

William H. Robertson

William Henry Robertson (born October 10, 1823 in Bedford , New York , † December 6, 1898 in Katonah , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1867 and 1869 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

William Henry Robertson was born and raised in Bedford about eight years after the end of the British-American War . He attended community schools and the Bedford Union Academy in Bedford. Robertson studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1847 and then began practicing in White Plains . He served in the New York State Assembly in 1849 and 1850, and in the New York Senate in 1854 and 1855 . Between 1855 and 1867 he was a judge in Westchester County . He served as an inspector in the Seventh Brigade of the New York National Guard between 1860 and 1866 . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional elections of 1866 for the 40th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the tenth constituency of New York , where he succeeded William Radford on March 4, 1867 . Since he on a run again in 1868 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1869 Congress of.

Robertson ran unsuccessfully in 1872 and 1879 for the post of governor of New York. Between 1872 and 1881 he was a member of the New York Senate. During this time he was President pro tempore between 1874 and 1881 . In 1881 he became a collector in the Port of New York - a position he held until 1885. He sat again in the New York Senate in 1888 and 1889. He died on December 6, 1898 in Katonah and was then buried in Union Cemetery in Bedford.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 240 and 866.

Web links

• William H. Robertson in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• William H. Robertson in the database of Find a Grave (English)