Erastus D. Culver

Erastus Dean Culver (born March 15, 1803 in Champlain , New York , † October 13, 1889 in Greenwich , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1845 and 1847 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Erastus Dean Culver was born and raised in Champlain, Washington County approximately nine years before the outbreak of the British-American War . In 1826 he graduated from the University of Vermont at Burlington . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1831 and then began practicing at Fort Ann . In 1836 he moved to Greenwich. He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1838 and 1840 . Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party .

In the congressional elections of 1844 for the 29th Congress he was elected in the 14th electoral district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Charles Rogers on March 4, 1845 . He retired from the after March 3, 1847 Congress of.

In 1850 he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn . He was a Brooklyn City Court judge from 1854 to 1861 . President Abraham Lincoln appointed him to succeed Henry Taylor Blow as Minister Resident in Venezuela - a position he held from October 7, 1862 to May 17, 1866. He died in Greenwich on October 13, 1889 and was then buried in the Culver Crypt in Greenwich Cemetery .

Web links

• Erastus D. Culver in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Erastus D. Culver in the database of Find a Grave (English)