Isaac Toucey

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Isaac Toucey

Isaac Toucey (born November 15, 1792 in Newtown , Fairfield County , Connecticut , † July 30, 1869 in Hartford , Connecticut) was a politician in the United States and represented the state of Connecticut in the House of Representatives and in the US Senate . He was Connecticut Governor , United States Attorney General, and Secretary of the Navy .

Studies and professional career

After studying law , he was admitted to the bar in 1818. As such, he first worked for four years in Hartford before he was prosecutor of Hartford County from 1822 to 1835 . He held this office again from 1842 to 1846. After leaving the government, he worked again as a lawyer until his death.

Political career

Political office in Connecticut

Toucey as governor

Toucey began his political career on March 4, 1835 with the election to the representative of the House of Representatives. He was a member of the House of Representatives as a representative of the first congressional electoral district until his electoral defeat in 1838. Despite losing in the 1845 election, the Connecticut State Legislature appointed him Connecticut Governor in 1846. However, two years later he lost the gubernatorial election to Clark Bissell . From 1850 to 1852 he was a member of the State Senate and then briefly a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives .

Minister and US Senator

On June 21, 1848, President James K. Polk appointed him to succeed Nathan Clifford as United States Attorney General in his cabinet. He then belonged to this until the end of Polk's tenure on March 4, 1849.

On March 4, 1851, he was elected to the United States Senate, to which he was then from May 12, 1852 to March 3, 1857 as a representative of the Democratic Party of the first Senate electoral district. During this time he represented the Senate on several occasions with President Franklin Pierce and his administration.

On March 7, 1857, President James Buchanan , who was Secretary of State with him in the Polk cabinet , appointed him Secretary of the Navy . The appointment served on the one hand to reassure the parliamentary group around ex-President Pierce, on the other hand to represent the New England states in the cabinet. Toucey, who held mostly moderate positions, belonged to Buchanan's government until the end of his term on March 4, 1861. He was succeeded by his main rival in Connecticut, Gideon Welles .

The destroyer USS Toucey (DD-282), which entered service shortly after the First World War , was named in his honor .

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SURNAME Toucey, Isaac
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Newtown , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1869
Place of death Hartford , Connecticut