Silas Halsey

Silas Halsey

Silas Halsey (born October 6, 1743 in Southampton , Province of New York , † November 19, 1832 in Lodi , New York ) was an American doctor and politician . Between 1805 and 1807 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives . Congressmen Jehiel H. Halsey and Nicoll Halsey were his sons.

Career

Silas Halsey grew up during the British colonial era. During this time he attended public schools. He studied medicine in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth ), New Jersey . He later returned to Southampton, where he practiced as a doctor between 1764 and 1776. During the Revolutionary War he lived for three years in Killingworth ( Connecticut ), but then moved back to Southampton. He held the post of undersheriff in Suffolk County between 1784 and 1787 and the post of sheriff between 1787 and 1792 . In 1793 he moved to Herkimer County , where he settled in what is now the Town of Lodi in Seneca County . In the following period he practiced as a doctor again. In addition, he built and operated a grain mill ( grist mill ). Between 1794 and 1804 he was a supervisor in the town of Ovid . He sat in the years 1797 and 1798 for Onondaga County and in 1800, 1801, 1803 and 1804 for Cayuga County in New York State Assembly . As a member of parliament in 1801 he took part in the New York Constituent Assembly . Between 1804 and 1813 and in 1815 he worked as a clerk in Seneca County.

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 1804 for the 9th Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Oliver Phelps on March 4, 1805 . He retired from the after March 3, 1807 Congress of.

He then sat in the New York Senate in 1808 and 1809 . He worked as a farmer. He died on November 19, 1832 in Lodi and was then buried in Old Halsey Cemetery in South Lodi .

Web links

• Silas Halsey in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Silas Halsey in the database of Find a Grave (English)