Azariah C. Flagg

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Azariah C. Flagg

Azariah Cutting Flagg (born November 28, 1790 in Orwell , Vermont , † November 24, 1873 in New York City ) was an American newspaper editor and politician .

Career

Azariah Cutting Flagg, son of Elizabeth Cutting († 1838) and Ebenezer Flagg (1756-1828), was born in Addison County about seven years after the end of the War of Independence . Nothing is known about his youth. Flagg fought during the British-American War . From 1813 to 1826 he was the publisher of the Plattsburgh Republican in Plattsburgh ( New York ).

He served in the New York State Assembly for Clinton County in 1823 and 1824 . In 1826 he was elected Secretary of State of New York and re-elected in 1829 and 1832. Flagg was elected New York State Comptroller in 1833 and re-elected in 1836, 1842, and 1845. He was part of the senior management of the Albany Regency . He held his last political office from 1853 to 1859 as New York City Comptroller.

Flagg was a member of the Bucktails faction in the Democratic Republican Party . Over time, he was a Jacksonian, a Democrat, and a Barnburner . He joined the Free Soil Party in the late 1840s and finally the Republican Party in the mid 1850s .

He was buried in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery .

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SURNAME Flagg, Azariah C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Flagg, Azariah Cutting (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American newspaper editor and politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1790
PLACE OF BIRTH Orwell , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1873
Place of death New York City