Sanford E. Church

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Sanford Elias Church (born April 18, 1815 in Milford , Otsego County , New York , † May 13, 1880 in Albion , New York) was an American lawyer and politician ( Democratic Party ).

Career

His parents, of English and Scottish descent, moved from Otsego to Monroe County when he was a child. There he went to community schools and the Monroe Academy . From 1835 he lived in Albion, with the exception of a brief period in Rochester . He studied law with Benjamin L. Bessac, who was then his law firm partner until 1843. Then he teamed up with Noah Davis . This company existed for a period of 13 years. The Church & Sawyer firm was dissolved in Albion. Around 1862 he took Richter Selden's place in the office ofSelden, Munger & Thompson in Rochester. In 1865 the firm was renamed Church, Munger & Cooke and existed in this form until Church's election to the New York Court of Appeals .

Church decided to embark on a political career when he successfully ran for a seat for Orleans County in the New York State Assembly in 1842 . He was named District Attorney for the county three years later, and after the New York Constitution of 1846 came into effect, he was elected to the same office in a regular election. He then held this post until the end of 1850.

The Democrats nominated him in 1850 for the office of lieutenant governor and Horatio Seymour as governor . Seymour suffered a defeat to Washington Hunt , a Whig candidate , who defeated him by a majority of 200 votes, while Church won the gubernatorial election . In 1852 he was re-elected to the same office, this time Seymour was elected governor.

Church was elected New York State Comptroller in 1857 , but was defeated in his re-election attempts in 1859 and 1863, respectively. Then in 1867 he served as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly and chaired its finance committee.

He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1844, 1860, 1864, and 1868, defending Stephen A. Douglas' nomination in 1860 . At the Democratic National Convention, which was held in New York City in July 1868, Church was nominated by the New York delegation as its presidential candidate. His name was put to the convention by Samuel J. Tilden , chairman of the delegation, who voted for him the first seven rounds. Then you switched to Thomas A. Hendricks and voted for him between the eighth and 22nd ballot until an interruption by other states, after which Horatio Seymour, chairman of the convention, was nominated.

In the spring of 1870 Church was nominated by the Democratic Assembly for the post of Chief Judge on the New York Court of Appeals . His opponents were George F. Comstock in the meeting and then Henry R. Selden in the election. Church was elected to succeed Robert Earl by a majority of nearly 19,000 votes . He passed away in his office, very suddenly and unexpectedly, without any previous illness, on his estate in Albion, where he spent a three-week vacation. He was buried in Mt. Albion Cemetery in Albion.

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SURNAME Church, Sanford E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Church, Sanford Elias (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1815
PLACE OF BIRTH Milford , New York
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 1880
Place of death Albion , New York