Nathan Sanford

Nathan Sanford

Nathan Sanford (born  November 5, 1777 in Bridgehampton , Suffolk County , New York , †  October 17, 1838 in Flushing , New York) was an American politician ( Democratic Republican Party ), the state of New York in the US Senate represented.

Lawyer and state politician

The on Long Iceland -born Nathan Sanford studied after completion of schooling the law , was admitted to the bar in 1799 and worked as a lawyer in New York City . He succeeded Edward Livingston as a federal attorney for New York District in 1803 and remained in that post until 1815.

During this time, Sanford also embarked on a political career. From 1808 to 1809 and in 1811 he sat in the New York State Assembly , where he was elected Speaker of the Chamber of Parliament on January 29 . But when he was absent due to illness at their next meeting on February 10th, the MPs immediately elected a successor in William Ross . From 1812 to 1815 he was a member of the New York Senate .

Senator and Judge

In 1814, Nathan Sanford ran for a seat in the US Senate for the first time and was successful. He graduated between 4 March 1815 and the March 3, 1821 a full term in Washington , where he, among others, the chair of the Trade Committee ( Committee on Commerce and Manufactures led). He then resigned from the Senate, took part as a delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention from 1821 and was chairman ( Chancellor ) of the Supreme Court of New York State ( Court of Chancery ) from 1823 to 1826 ; he succeeded James Kent there .

In the 1824 presidential election , Sanford was one of several candidates for the office of vice president . In the Electoral College , which did not come to a clear decision on the election of the president and had to hand it over to the House of Representatives , he achieved 30 votes and thus the second-best result after John C. Calhoun . This was supported by both main candidates for the presidency, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson , and therefore won unchallenged with 182 electoral votes.

In 1826, Sanford resigned from his post as a judge after winning the by-election for New York's class 3 mandate in the US Senate, which had been vacant for almost a year . He returned to Congress on January 14, 1826 and remained there - in the meantime he had switched to the newly formed National Republican Party - until March 3, 1831; he did not stand for re-election. He then worked as a lawyer in the New York borough of Flushing, where he died on October 17, 1838.

Web links

• Nathan Sanford in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Nathan Sanford in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Nathan Sanford at The Political Graveyard