Lucas Elmendorf

Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (* 1758 in Kingston , Province of New York , † August 17, 1843 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1797 and 1803 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Lucas Conrad Elmendorf grew up during the British colonial era and graduated from Princeton College in 1782 . He studied law and began practicing law in 1785 after receiving his license to practice law. In 1794 he ran unsuccessfully for a congress seat. As an opponent of too strong a central government, he joined the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional elections of 1796 he was elected in the fourth constituency of New York to the US House of Representatives, which was still in Philadelphia at that time , where he succeeded John Hathorn on March 4, 1797 . He was re-elected twice in a row. Since it to a fourth candidacy in 1802 renounced, he left the after 3 March 1803 Congress of. He then sat in the New York State Assembly in 1804 and 1805 and in the New York Senate between 1814 and 1817 . As First Judge at the Court of Common Pleas (now County Court ) of Ulster County he served between 1815 and 1821. Then he was between 1835 and 1840 guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Ulster County. He died on August 17, 1843 in Kingston and was buried in the crypt of the First Dutch Church .

Web links

• Lucas Elmendorf in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lucas Elmendorf in the database of Find a Grave (English)