Aaron Van der Poel

Aaron Van der Poel

Aaron Van der Poel (born February 5, 1799 in Kinderhook , New York , † July 18, 1870 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1833 and 1837 and between 1839 and 1841 .

Career

Aaron Van der Poel was born in Kinderhook at the end of the 18th century. He pursued classical antiquity and studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1820 and then began practicing in Kinderhook. Between 1826 and 1830 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress he was elected in the eighth constituency of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Jacob Houck junior on March 4, 1833 . He was re-elected once. In 1836 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1837 Congress of. In the following time he joined the Democratic Party . In 1838 he was elected to the 26th Congress and on March 4, 1839 succeeded Zadock Pratt and Robert McClellan , who had previously represented the eighth District of New York in the US House of Representatives. He left the Congress after March 3, 1841.

After his time in Congress, he settled in New York City. He was appointed judge of the Superior Court in 1842 and elected in 1843 - a position he held until January 1, 1850. He died on July 18, 1870 in New York City and was then buried in Woodlawn Cemetery . At this point the civil war had ended for about five years.

family

Aaron Van der Poel was the son of Moyca Huyck and Isaac Van der Poel. On September 3, 1821, he married his first wife, Harriet Baldwin. She died in April 1837. The marriage had no children. On April 2, 1839, he married his second wife, Ellen McBride, daughter of Hannah Savage and James McBride. The couple had three children together: James McBride Van der Poel (1840-1860), John Van der Poel (1842-1866) and Aaron Ernest Van der Poel (* 1846).

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 73, 92 and 312.
• Sebastian V. Talcott: Genealogical Notes Of New York And New England Families , Heritage Books, 2001, ISBN 0-7884-1956-0 , pp. 333f.

Web links

• Aaron Van der Poel in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Aaron Van der Poel in the database of Find a Grave (English)