Abraham Van Vechten

Abraham Van Vechten (born December 5, 1762 in Catskill , New York Province, † January 6, 1837 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Abraham Van Vechten, son of the Dutch immigrants Judikje Ten Broeck and Teunis Van Vechten (1707–1785) was during the reign of King George III. born in catskill. It was then in Albany County , but is now in Greene County . Nothing is known about his youth. He attended Columbia College , studied law with John Lansing Jr., and began practicing in Johnstown, New York, but soon moved to Albany, New York. In 1784 he married Catharina Schuyler (1766-1820). He was elected one of the first directors of the Bank of Albany in 1792 .

From 1796 to 1797 he was Assistant Attorney General in the Fifth District, which consisted of Albany County, Saratoga County , Schoharie County and Montgomery County . In the presidential election in 1796 he served as elector for John Adams and Thomas Pinckney , both of the Federalist Party .

Van Vechten was the City of Albany recorder from 1797 to 1808 . He served in the New York Senate from 1798 to 1805 and from 1816 to 1819 and in the New York State Assembly from 1806 and 1808 to 1813 . From 1810 to 1811 and from 1813 to 1815 he was Attorney General of New York. In 1821 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . From 1797 to 1823 he was regent at the University of the State of New York . In the 1828 presidential election he served as elector for John Quincy Adams and Richard Rush , both of the National Republican Party .

He died in Albany in 1837 and was buried there in the Albany Rural Cemetery .

literature

Died , The Newark Daily Advertiser, Jan. 10, 1837
The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858, pp. 36, 119, 122f, 147, 179, 181, 183 and 187

Web links

Individual evidence

^ HC Waite, Buren Peckham: History of Cornelis Maessen Van Buren . Рипол Классик, ISBN 978-5-87839-437-6 ( page 351 ). |
^ J. Munsell: Collections on the History of Albany: From Its Discovery to the Present Time; with Notices of Its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased, Volume 4, Joel Munsell, 1871, page 184j
^ The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 9, JT White, 1907, p. 163 online

personal data
SURNAME	Van Vechten, Abraham
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	December 5, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH	Catskill , New York
DATE OF DEATH	January 6, 1837
Place of death	Albany , New York

[1] HC Waite, Buren Peckham: History of Cornelis Maessen Van Buren . Рипол Классик, ISBN 978-5-87839-437-6 ( page 351 ). |

[2] J. Munsell: Collections on the History of Albany: From Its Discovery to the Present Time; with Notices of Its Public Institutions, and Biographical Sketches of Citizens Deceased, Volume 4, Joel Munsell, 1871, page 184j

[3] The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography, Volume 9, JT White, 1907, p. 163 online