Josiah Sutherland

Josiah Sutherland

Josiah Sutherland (born June 12, 1804 in Stanford , New York , † May 25, 1887 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1851 and 1853 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Josiah Sutherland was born in the early 19th century in Stanford Township near the Village of Stissing in Dutchess County . He attended the district school and graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1824 . Sutherland studied law in Waterford and Hudson . He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and then began practicing in the Village of Johnstown ( Livingston Township ). Between 1832 and 1843 he was a district attorney in Columbia County . He moved to Hudson in 1838. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32nd Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eleventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Peter H. Silvester on March 4, 1851 . Since he on a run again in 1852 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1853 Congress of.

He moved to New York City in 1857, where he continued his practice as a lawyer. In 1857 he became associate justice at the New York Supreme Court - a position he held until 1871. During this time he was an ex officio judge at the New York Court of Appeals between 1862 and 1870 . Between 1872 and 1878 he was a member and presiding judge ( presiding judge ) at the Court of General Sessions . He then resumed his practice in New York City. He died there on May 25, 1887. His body was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx .

Web links

• Josiah Sutherland in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Josiah Sutherland in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list" , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 75 and 91.
2. ^ "There shall be a Court of Appeals ..." , The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York, p. 93