Charles Borland Junior

Charles Borland junior (born June 29, 1786 in Minisink , New York , † February 23, 1852 in Ward's Bridge , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1821 and 1823 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Borland Jr. was born in Orange County about three years after the War of Independence ended . He completed his undergraduate studies and then graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1811 . Then he studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice. Borland was ten years President in the Board of Trustees in Montgomery . He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1820 and 1821 .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . He was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth electoral district of New York on November 8, 1821 , to fill the vacancy created by the death of Selah Tuthill . He retired from the after March 3, 1823 Congress of.

Between 1835 and 1841 he served as a district attorney in Orange County. During this time he was again a member of the New York State Assembly in 1836. He died in Ward's Bridge on February 23, 1852 and was then buried in Riverside Cemetery in Montgomery.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 197, 218, 260 and 378.

Web links

• Charles Borland junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Charles Borland junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)