Robert Monell

Robert Monell (born April 25, 1787 in Claverack , New York , † November 29, 1860 in Greene , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1819 and 1821 and between 1829 and 1831 .

Career

Robert Monell was born in Claverack, Columbia County , about two years after the Revolutionary War ended . He pursued classical ancient studies . Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and then began practicing in Binghamton . In 1811 he moved to Greene, Chenango County , where he continued to practice as a lawyer. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1814 and 1815 .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of the year 1818 for the 16th Congress , he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he on March 4, 1819, the successor of Isaac Williams Jr. and John R. Drake took who had previously represented the district in the US House of Representatives. He retired from the after March 3, 1821 Congress of.

Monell was again a member of the New York State Assembly in 1825, 1826, and 1828. He served as the Chenango County District Attorney in 1827.

In the following time he joined the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1828 for the 21st Congress he ran in the 21st constituency of New York for the US House of Representatives, where he succeeded John C. Clark after March 4, 1829 . He resigned from his seat before the end of his term on February 3, 1831.

Between 1831 and 1845 he was a district judge in the sixth judicial district. He then worked as a clerk at the New York Supreme Court in 1846 . Then he went back to his activity as a lawyer. He died on November 29, 1860 in Greene and was then buried in Hornby Cemetery . Civil war broke out about five months later .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 189, 202f, 206, 292, 356 and 371.

Web links

• Robert Monell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Robert Monell in the database of Find a Grave (English)