Charles Humphrey

Charles Humphrey (born February 14, 1792 in Little Britain , New York , † April 17, 1850 in Albany , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Humphrey was born in Orange County about nine years after the War of Independence ended . In his childhood the family moved to Newburgh , where he attended the Newburgh Academy . Humphrey began to study law , but interrupted it after the outbreak of the British-American War and enlisted in the US Army . At the beginning he held the rank of first sergeant in the 5th Newburgh Company . On August 15, 1813, he was appointed captain in the 41st  Regiment of the United States Infantery . After the end of the war he resumed his law studies. On January 11, 1816, he was admitted to the Newburgh bar. In 1818 he moved to Ithaca , where he practiced as a lawyer.

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams faction. In the 1824 congressional elections for the 19th Congress , Humphrey was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 25th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded Samuel Lawrence on March 4, 1825 . He retired from the after March 3, 1827 Congress of.

He was then President in the Village of Ithaca in 1828 and 1829. He was elected Guardianship and Probate Judge in Tompkins County - a post he held from March 4, 1831 to January 8, 1834. He then sat in the New York State Assembly between 1834 and 1836 and in 1842 . During this time he was speaker there in 1835 and 1836 . In 1843 he was appointed clerk at the New York Supreme Court . Humphrey held the post until 1847. He died on April 17, 1850 in Albany and was then buried in the city cemetery of Ithaca.

literature

• History of political parties in the State of New-York , John Stilwell Jenkins, Alden & Markham, 1846, p. 398.
• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 216f, 227f, 283, 918

Web links

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

• Charles Humphrey in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Charles Humphrey at The Political Graveyard