Cadwallader D. Colden

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Cadwallader D. Colden ( Yale University Art Gallery )

Cadwallader David Colden (born April 4, 1769 in Springhill , New York Province, † February 7, 1834 in Jersey City , New Jersey ) was an American lawyer , officer and politician . Between 1821 and 1823 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Cadwallader D. Colden was the grandson of Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), who was three times acting colonial governor of the British province of New York between 1760 and 1770. He was born about six years before the outbreak of the War of Independence in Springhill near Flushing and grew up there. He received private tuition and then studied classical studies first in Jamaica (New York) and then in London ( Great Britain ). In 1785 he returned to the United States where he Jura studied. After receiving his license to practice bar in 1791, he began practicing in New York City . Two years later he moved to Poughkeepsie and from there to New York City in 1796. Colden was appointed district attorney in 1798 and 1810 . As an active Freemason , he was the First Overseer ( Senior Grand Warden ) of the New York Grand Lodge between 1801 and 1805 and between 1810 and 1819 . During the war of 1812 he served as Colonel of the Volunteers .

Colden's grave in New York City

Politically, Colden belonged to the Federalist Party . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1818 and was mayor of New York City as successor to Jacob Radcliff until his resignation in 1821 . In the congressional elections of 1820 , Peter Sharpe was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded James Guyon junior and Silas Wood , who previously together made the first district, on March 4, 1821 represented in the US House of Representatives. However, Colden was able to successfully challenge his election on December 12, 1821 on the basis of an incorrect registration. Since he renounced his candidacy in 1822, he left the Congress after March 3, 1823 . Colden then sat in the New York Senate between 1824 and 1827 , where he played a leading role in building the Erie Canal . He then moved to Jersey City, where he mainly devoted himself to building the Morris Canal . He died there on February 7, 1834 and was then buried in Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City.

memoirs

As a proponent of a national canal system, Colden was commissioned by the New York City council during the last construction phase of the Erie Canal in 1825 to write his work “Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the , Mayor of the City at the Celebration of the completion of the New York Canals. " to write. The work and its appendix contain lithographic representations of the canal construction and the high points of the "Grand Canal Celebration" .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Proceedings of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of the State of New York , May 1921, p. 254.
  2. ↑ a b Weed, Parsons & Co .: The New York Civil List , 1858, pp. 126, 139, 193, 266 and 366f.
  3. ↑ Excerpts from Colden's memoirs
predecessor Office successor
Jacob Radcliff Mayor of New York City
1818–1821 		Stephen Allen
personal data
SURNAME Colden, Cadwallader D.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Colden, Cadwallader David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH April 4, 1769
PLACE OF BIRTH Springhill , New York Province
DATE OF DEATH February 7, 1834
Place of death Jersey City , New Jersey