Gurdon S. Mumford

Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford (born January 29, 1764 in New London , Colony of Connecticut , † April 30, 1831 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1805 and 1811 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford grew up during the British colonial period and attended community schools during this time. He was his private secretary during the second half of Benjamin Franklin's stay in Paris .

Two years after the end of the Revolutionary War , he returned to America with Franklin and settled in New York City. He and his brothers were in the commission business in 1791 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . After Daniel D. Tompkins resigned from his seat in Congress before he took office, Mumford was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of New York to fill the vacancy there. He was re-elected twice in a row and worked there from March 4, 1805 to March 3, 1811, as he renounced a fourth candidacy. As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures ( 9th Congress ).

In the presidential election in 1812 , he entered as an elector ( presidential elector ) and voted for DeWitt Clinton , and Jared Ingersoll . In the same year he was elected President of the Bank of New York . The following year he opened a broker's office on Wall Street and was one of the founders of the New York Exchange .

He died in New York City on April 30, 1831 and was then buried in the Old Collegiate Dutch Church Cemetery .

Web links

• Gurdon S. Mumford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Gurdon S. Mumford in the database of Find a Grave (English)