Origen S. Seymour

Origen S. Seymour

Origen Storrs Seymour (born February 9, 1804 in Litchfield , Connecticut , †  August 12, 1881 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Origen Seymour attended the public schools of his home country and then studied at Yale College until 1824 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1826, he began to practice in his hometown Litchfield in this profession. Between 1836 and 1844 he was an administrative clerk with Litchfield County .

Politically, Seymour joined the Democratic Party founded by President Andrew Jackson . He was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1842, 1849, and 1850 ; In 1850 he served as president of this body. In the congressional election of the same year he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of Connecticut . There he took over from Thomas B. Butler of the Whig Party on March 4, 1851 . After a re-election in 1852, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1855 , which were increasingly shaped by the question of slavery and the contrast between the northern and southern states .

After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Seymour served as a judge in the Connecticut Superior Court from 1855 to 1863 . In the years 1864 and 1865 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of governor of his state; in both cases he was defeated by Republican William Alfred Buckingham . In 1870 he became a judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court . Between 1873 and reaching the statutory age limit in 1874, he chaired it as Chief Justice . In 1876, Seymour headed a commission to settle a border dispute between Connecticut and New York . In 1880 he was re-elected to the House of Representatives of his state. He was also the first president of the Connecticut Bar Association.

Origen Seymour died on August 12, 1881 in his native Litchfield. He was the father of Edward Woodruff Seymour (1832-1892), who also represented the fourth district of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives between 1883 and 1887. He was also a nephew of Horatio Seymour (1778-1857), who sat between 1821 and 1833 for the State of Vermont in the US Senate .

Web links

• Origen S. Seymour in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Origen S. Seymour in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Origen S. Seymour at The Political Graveyard