Gilbert Dean

Gilbert Dean (born August 14, 1819 in Pleasant Valley , New York , † October 12, 1870 in Poughkeepsie , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1851 and 1854 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gilbert Dean was born and raised in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County , approximately three and a half years after the end of the British-American War . During this time he attended community schools and the local Amenia Seminary . In 1841 he graduated from Yale College . Dean studied law , was admitted to the bar, and then began practicing in Poughkeepsie in 1844. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1850 Dean was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Ransom Halloway on March 4, 1851 . In 1852 , he ran for a seat in Congress in the twelfth constituency of New York. After a successful election, he succeeded David L. Seymour on March 4, 1853 . However, he resigned from his seat on July 3, 1854.

Governor Horatio Seymour appointed him on June 26, 1854 to the Supreme Court judge for the second judicial district of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Seward Barculo. He then became a judge on the Court of Appeals on January 1, 1855 - a position he held until January 1, 1856. Then he moved to New York City in 1856 , where he worked as a lawyer again, but kept a summer residence in Poughkeepsie. His most notorious client was Captain Nathaniel Gordon (Natty the Clean), who was the only man ever sentenced to death in the United States for international slave trade. Dean unsuccessfully appealed to President Abraham Lincoln . He argued that a city jail, The Tombs in New York, could not be used to execute a person convicted of a federal offense. In 1863 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . Dean died in Poughkeepsie on October 12, 1870, and was then buried in Presbyterian Cemetery in Pleasant Valley. His remains were later transferred to the Portland Evergreen Cemetery in Brocton .

Works

"The emancipation proclamation and arbitrary arrests !!" , Gale Cengage Learning, 1863.

Web links

Individual evidence

^ ^A ^b Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list" , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 75 and 350.
^ "There shall be a Court of Appeals ..." , The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York, 1997, p. 91, footnote 21.
^ "Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York" , Volume 1, 1863, p. 3.
^ Forrest G. Wood, "Black Scare," University of California Press, 1970, p. 196.

personal data
SURNAME	Dean, Gilbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	August 14, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Pleasant Valley , New York
DATE OF DEATH	October 12, 1870
Place of death	Poughkeepsie , New York

[WPC-1] A ^b Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list" , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 75 and 350.

[2] "There shall be a Court of Appeals ..." , The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York, 1997, p. 91, footnote 21.

[3] "Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York" , Volume 1, 1863, p. 3.

[4] Forrest G. Wood, "Black Scare," University of California Press, 1970, p. 196.