George William Palmer (politician, 1818)

George William Palmer

George William Palmer (born January 13, 1818 in Hoosick , New York , † March 12, 1916 in Plattsburgh , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1857 and 1861 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman John Palmer was his uncle and Congressman William E. Haynes was his cousin.

Career

George William Palmer was born in Hoosick, Rensselaer County , approximately three years after the end of the British-American War . He attended community schools, the Schodack Academy in Schodack and Yale College . Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar around 1840 and then began practicing in Plattsburgh. He served as a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Clinton County . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the 1856 congressional elections for the 35th Congress , Palmer was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 16th  electoral district of New York , where he succeeded George A. Simmons on March 4, 1857 . After a successful re-election in 1860 , he declined to run again and resigned from Congress on March 3, 1861 . As a Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (35th Congress).

After his convention, he took part in 1864 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Baltimore . President Abraham Lincoln appointed him US consul in Crete . In 1866 he became a federal judge at the International Court for Suppression of Slave Trade on the west coast of Africa - a position he held until his resignation in 1870. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1884 and 1885 . Palmer was an iron maker in Clinton . He died on March 12, 1916 in Plattsburgh and was then buried in Riverside Cemetery .

Web links

• George William Palmer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George William Palmer in the database of Find a Grave (English)