Dudley Selden

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Dudley Selden (* 1794 ; † November 7, 1855 in Paris , France ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives in 1833 and 1834 .

Career

Dudley Selden was born in the late 18th century. He graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1819 . Selden studied law and began practicing in New York City in 1831 after receiving his license to practice law. He sat in the New York State Assembly that same year . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1832 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he on March 4, 1833, the successor to Churchill C. Cambreleng , Campbell P. White and Gulian C. Verplanck took who previously together represented the third district in the US House of Representatives. However, he resigned on July 1, 1834 from his congress seat. He died in Paris on November 7, 1855. His body was then interred in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery .

Web links

  • Dudley Selden in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Herbert G. Houze, Carolyn C. Cooper and Elizabeth Mankin Kornhauser: Samuel Colt: Arms, Art, and Invention , Yale University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-300-11133-9 , ISBN 978-0-300-11133-0 , P. 246.
personal data
SURNAME Selden, Dudley
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH 1794
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1855
Place of death Paris , France