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Barent Gardenier (born July 28, 1776 in Kingston , New York , † January 10, 1822 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1807 and 1811 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Barent Gardenier, son of Elizabeth Van Alen and Dirck (Richard) Gardenier, was born and raised in Kingston during the Revolutionary War . He enjoyed a good education. Gardenier studied law , was admitted to the bar, and then began to practice. He held several local offices. Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party .

In the congressional election of 1806 Gardenier was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Martin G. Schuneman on March 4, 1807 . In 1808 he ran for a seat in Congress in the fifth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded John Blake on March 4, 1809 . Since he has a third nomination in 1810 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1811 Congress of. As a result of opposing views regarding the trade embargo (1806-1810) by Thomas Jefferson , there was a duel between him and George W. Campbell in 1808 in Bladensburg ( Maryland ) , in which he was shot.

After his time in Congress, he resumed his practice as a lawyer and practiced this in the counties of Ulster and Columbia . Gardenier served as District Attorney in the First District from March 1813 to April 1815 . He died on January 10, 1822 in Kingston and was buried there below the First Reformed Dutch Church .

Works

• The Examiner: Containing Political Essays on the Most Important Events of the Time; Public Laws and Official Documents , Volume 2, 1814
• The New-York Reporter: Containing Reports of Trials and Decisions in the Different Courts of Judicature , Volume 1, Issue 2, 1820

literature

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005 , United States Government Printing Office , 2005, ISBN 0-16-073176-3 , pp. 69, 72 and 1101.
• Merrill D. Peterson: Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography , Oxford University Press, September 11, 1986, ISBN 978-0-19-501909-4 , p. 896.
• Journal of the House of Representatives of the United States , 1826
• Bradford Perkins: Prologue to War: England and the United States, 1805-1812 , University of California Press, 1963, p. 34.

Web links

• Barent Gardenier in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Barent Gardenier in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Hollace Carey Gordinier: Gardenier: Ephraim Gordinier, 1785-1860: his ancestors and descendants Including the first two generations of Gardenier in America , Gateway Press, 1990, p. 2
2. ^ Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington , Vol. 29-30, The Society, pp. 123f.
3. ^ Joseph Nathan Kane: Famous first facts: a record of first happenings, discoveries and inventions in the United States , HW Wilson, 1950, p. 169.