Marshall B. Champlain

Marshall Bolds Champlain (born December 22, 1824 in Stafford , New York , † March 7, 1879 in Cuba , New York) was an American lawyer and politician .

Career

Marshall Champlain, son of Dr. Gilbert B. Champlain was born in Genesee County in 1824 . His youth were overshadowed by the economic crisis of 1837 . He studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and then began practicing in Cuba, New York. In 1845 he became a district attorney in Allegany County . The following years were overshadowed by the Mexican-American War . In 1853 he was a member of the New York State Assembly for Allegany County . In the following years he was responsible for the criminal prosecution of the impeachment of sewer commissioner John C. Mather. He also brought charges against Edward Rulloff of murder and charges against the Erie Railroad Company . In 1860 he took part as a delegate at the Democratic National Convention in Charleston ( South Carolina ) and in 1864 at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago ( Illinois ). During the Civil War , he ran as a Democrat for the post of Attorney General of New York in 1861 and 1863 , but suffered defeat on both occasions to his former party colleagues Daniel S. Dickinson and John Cochrane , who were nominated by the Union Conventions and the War Democrats . On his third candidacy in 1867 he was elected Attorney General of New York and re-elected in 1869. However, he suffered a defeat against Francis Channing Barlow when he ran for re-election in 1871 . In 1867 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . He died in 1879 of pneumonia .

literature

• Holley, Orville Luther: The New York State Register, for 1843 , J. Disturnell, 1843, p. 360
• Holley, Orville Luther: The New York State Register, for 1843 , J. Disturnell, 1847, p. 38
• The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858, p. 264
• The New-York Democratic State Committee , The New York Times, September 22, 1861
• A Democratic Politician Gone , The New York Times, March 10, 1879

Web links

• Marshall B. Champlain at The Political Graveyard

Individual evidence

1. ^ Marshall B. Champlain in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved August 8, 2015.
2. ^ Bailey, Richard W .: Rogue Scholar , University of Michigan Press, 2003, ISBN 9780472113378
3. ^ Erie Railway Company and James S. Whitney Against Marshall B. Champlain and Others , p. 87