Justin Dwinell

Justin Dwinell (born October 28, 1785 in Shaftsbury , Vermont , † September 17, 1850 in Cazenovia , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Justin Dwinell was born in Bennington County about two years after the American Revolutionary War ended . He attended local private schools and Williams College in Williamstown . In 1808 he graduated from Yale College . He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law in 1811, he began practicing in Cazenovia. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1821 and 1822 .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford faction. In the 1822 congressional elections for the 18th Congress , Dwinell was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd constituency of New York , where he became the first representative of the district in the US House of Representatives on March 4, 1823 . Since he on a run again in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of.

After his time at Congress he went back to his practice as a lawyer. He was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Madison County between 1828 and 1833 . Between 1837 and 1845 he was a district attorney in Madison County. He died on September 17, 1850 in Cazenovia and was then buried in Evergreen Cemetery .

literature

• The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 197f, 271, 361 and 376.
• The True Genealogy of the Dunnel and Dwinnell family of New England , Henry Gale Dunnel, CB Richardson, 1862, pp. 30 and 47.

Web links

• Justin Dwinell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Justin Dwinell in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• ancestry.com