Thomas Lawyer

Thomas Lawyer

Thomas Lawyer (born October 14, 1785 in Schoharie , New York , † May 21, 1868 in Lawyersville , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Lawyer was born about two years after the end of the War of Independence in Schoharie and grew up there. He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Schoharie County . In 1816 he was a member of the New York State Assembly . He was a Brigadier General in the New York National Guard .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1816 for the 15th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 13th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded John B. Yates on March 4, 1817 . He retired from the after March 3, 1819 Congress of.

Between 1822 and 1831 he was a district attorney in Schoharie County. He was back in the New York State Assembly in 1846. He died in Lawyersville on May 21, 1868. At that point the civil war had ended for about three years.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 70, 85, 191, 232, 287 and 326.

Web links

• Thomas Lawyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Lawyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)