Abraham Bockee

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Abraham Bockee (born February 3, 1784 in Shekomeko , New York , † June 1, 1865 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1829 and 1831 and between 1833 and 1837 .

Career

Abraham Bockee was born in Shekomeko five months after the end of the War of Independence . He attended public schools and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1803 . Bockee studied law in Poughkeepsie . He was admitted to the bar in 1806 and practiced there until 1815 when he returned to Shekomeko. He worked in agriculture. In 1820 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

At that time he joined the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1828 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Thomas Taber on March 4, 1829 . He retired from the after 3 March 1831 Congress of. In 1832 he ran again for a seat in Congress. After a successful election, he succeeded Edmund H. Pendleton on March 4, 1833 . He was re-elected once and left Congress after March 3, 1837. As a Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Agriculture ( 23rd and 24th Congresses ).

He then sat in the New York Senate between 1840 and 1844 . In 1843 he became a judge at the Court of Appeal ( Court of Errors selected). Then in 1846 he was the first judge on the Dutchess County Court . He died in Shekomeko on June 1, 1865 , during the final year of the Civil War , and was then buried on his estate nearby.

Web links

  • Abraham Bockee in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)