John Woodworth

This article is about the lawyer and politician John Woodworth. For other people, see John Woodward .

John Woodworth (born November 12, 1768 in Schodack , New York Province, † June 1, 1858 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

John Woodworth, son of Rachel Fitch and later New York Senator Robert Woodworth, was born during the reign of King George III. born in Rensselaer County . His youth were marked by the War of Independence . He studied law with John Lansing Jr. at Yale College . He graduated in 1788 and was admitted to the bar in 1791. Woodworth married Catharine Westerlo (1778-1846). She was the sister of Rensselaer Westerlo and half-sister of Stephen Van Rensselaer III. , both Congressmen for New York.

He practiced in Troy . In 1792 he was appointed Loan Commissioner . Woodworth was from 1793 to 1804 guardianship and probate judge in Rensselaer County. In the presidential election in 1800 , he served as an elector for Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr , both from the Republican Democratic Party . In 1811 he was appointed commissioner who revised the state laws. Woodworth held the post of regent at the University of the State of New York .

In 1803 he sat for Rensselaer County in the New York State Assembly . During this session, the Democratic Republican Party nominated him for a seat in the US Senate . But he suffered a defeat in the primaries against Theodorus Bailey in a close race. Bailey was supported by a faction of his party as well as the federalists .

Woodworth was a member of the New York Senate from 1804 to 1807. During the same period, from 1804 to 1808, he was Attorney General of New York. From 1819 to 1828 he served as a judge on the New York Supreme Court . He was one of the last members of the Council of Revision , which was abolished in 1821 by the New York Constituent Assembly .

literature

• William P. Van Ness: Laws of New York, with Notes, Volume 2, Albany, 1813
• Reminiscences of Troy from its Settlement in 1790 till 1807, Albany, 1855
• Descendants of Walter Woodworth of Scituate, Mass , 1898, p. 81

Web links

• John Woodworth at The Political Graveyard