Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane

Aaron VS Cochrane

Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane (born March 14, 1858 in Coxsackie , New York , † September 7, 1943 in Hudson , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1897 and 1901 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Isaac W. Van Schaick was his uncle.

Career

Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane was born in Coxsackie, Greene County , about three years before the civil war broke out . He attended community schools and the Hudson River Institute in Claverack . He graduated from Yale College in 1879 and moved to Hudson that year. He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1881 and then began practicing in Hudson. He was Hudson City Judge in 1887 and 1888 . Between 1889 and 1892 he held the post of district attorney ( district attorney ) in Columbia County . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the 1896 congressional elections for the 55th Congress , Cochrane was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the 19th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Frank S. Black on March 4, 1897 . He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1900 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1901 Congress of.

In 1901 he was elected associate justice at the New York Supreme Court . He was re-elected in 1915. His term of office ended in 1928. In 1922, Governor Nathan Lewis Miller appointed him presiding justice of the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court. Cochrane came in 1928 back from his judges' posts was, however, continue as the official referee (to 1941 official referee active). He died in Hudson on September 7, 1943. His body was then interred in Riverside Cemetery in Coxsackie.

Web links

• Aaron Van Schaick Cochrane in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)