Philip S. Crooke

Philip S. Crooke

Philip Schuyler Crooke (born March 2, 1810 in Poughkeepsie , New York , † March 17, 1881 in Flatbush , Brooklyn , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1873 and 1875 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Philip Schuyler Crooke was born in Poughkeepsie about two years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He graduated from the Dutchess Academy there . Then he studied law . After receiving his license to practice as a lawyer in 1831, he began to practice in the then still separate city of Brooklyn. In 1838 he moved to Flatbush, a borough of Brooklyn.

Between 1844 and 1852 as well as 1858 and 1870 he was a member of the Borough Council of Kings County . During this time he was its chairman in 1861, 1862, 1864 and 1865. In the presidential election of 1852 , he joined as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Democratic Party on. Franklin Pierce then went out of the race as the winner. During the Civil War , he was elected a Republican to the New York State Assembly in 1863 .

He also served in the New York National Guard for four years . During this time he rose from private to brigadier general . He was in command of the Fifth Brigade of the New York National Guard, Pennsylvania , in June and July 1863 .

In the congressional election of 1872 , Crooke was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Robert Roosevelt on March 4, 1873 . Since he on a run again in 1874 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1875 Congress of.

Then he worked as a lawyer again. He died on March 17, 1881 in Flatbush and was then buried in Green-Wood Cemetery , Brooklyn.

Web links

• Philip S. Crooke in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Philip S. Crooke in the database of Find a Grave (English)