Henry S. Walbridge

Henry S. Walbridge

Henry Sanford Walbridge (born April 8, 1801 in Norwich , Connecticut , † January 27, 1869 in Hoboken , New Jersey ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Hiram Walbridge was his cousin.

Career

Henry Sanford Walbridge attended school in Bennington ( Vermont ). His youth was overshadowed by the British-American War . In 1820 he moved to Ithaca , Tompkins County . He studied law . After obtaining his license to practice law, he began practicing in Ithaca. In 1824 he worked as a clerk on the Tompkins County County Council. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1829 . He was also President of the Village Council of Ithaca in 1829 and 1842 . He was again in the New York State Assembly in 1846. Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party .

In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32nd Congress , Walbridge was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 26th  electoral district of New York , where he succeeded William Terry Jackson on March 4, 1851 . Since he on a run again in 1852 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1853 Congress of.

Between 1858 and 1868 he was a trustee at the Ithaca Academy . During this time he held the post of guardianship and probate judge in Tompkins County between 1859 and 1868. In 1868 he moved to Leonia, New Jersey, but practiced in New York City . He died about four years after the end of the civil war in a railway accident in the Bergen Tunnel near Hoboken. His body was then buried in the cemetery of the same name in Ithaca.

Web links

• Henry S. Walbridge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Henry S. Walbridge in the database of Find a Grave (English)