Levi S. Chatfield

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Levi Starr Chatfield (born March 7, 1808 in Butternuts , New York , † 1884 ) was an American lawyer and politician .

Life

Levi Chatfield, son of Hannah Starr (1782-1857) and Enos Chatfield (1782-1858), was born in 1808 in the part of the Town Butternuts, which was separated in 1849 and became the Town Morris . His childhood was overshadowed by the British-American War . When the Village Laurens was founded in 1834, he became the first town clerk there. He sat in the New York State Assembly for Otsego County, New York in 1839, 1840, 1841 and 1842 . During this time he held the post of speaker there in 1842 . His tenure was overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 .

Chatfield was one of the first trustees of the Presbyterian Church of Laurens when it was organized on January 16, 1844. In 1846 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . In 1847 he ran as a Democrat for the post of Attorney General of New York, but suffered a defeat to Ambrose L. Jordan , who ran for the Whigs and Anti-Rents. In the 1849 election he was elected Attorney General of New York and re-elected in 1851. He held the post from 1850 until his resignation in 1853, which happened 3 weeks before the end of his term of office. From 1853 to 1854 he was a major shareholder in the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad . In 1869 he represented plaintiff David Groesbeck in his lawsuit against the founding members of Trinity Church . In 1871 he married Elizabeth C. Browne (1843–1917). The judge Andrew G. Chatfield (1810-1875) at the Minnesota Supreme Court was his brother.

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