Clark B. Cochrane

Clark B. Cochrane

Clark Betton Cochrane (born May 31, 1815 in New Boston , New Hampshire , † March 5, 1867 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Clark Betton Cochrane was born in New Boston about three and a half months after the end of the British-American War . He moved to Montgomery County . In 1841 he graduated from Union College in Schenectady . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1841. He practiced in Amsterdam between 1841 and 1851 , then in Schenectady between 1851 and 1855 and in Albany from 1855 until his death. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party at that time . In 1844 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He was a trustee at Union College from 1853 to 1867 . After the founding of the Republican Party , he joined this party.

In the congressional elections of 1856 for the 35th Congress , Cochrane was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 18th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Thomas R. Horton on March 4, 1857 . He was re-elected once. Since he on a run again in 1860 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1861 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he went back to his practice as a lawyer in Albany. As a delegate he took part in the Republican National Convention in Baltimore in 1864. In 1866 he was again in the New York State Assembly. He died on March 5, 1867 in Albany and was then buried in Green Hill Cemetery in Amsterdam. At that point the civil war had ended for about two years.

Web links

• Clark B. Cochrane in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Clark B. Cochrane in the database of Find a Grave (English)