Theodoric R. Westbrook
Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook (born November 20, 1821 in Fishkill , New York , † October 6, 1885 in Troy , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .
Career
Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook was born in Fishkill about six and a half years after the end of the British-American War . He attended community schools and graduated in 1838 at Rutgers College in New Brunswick ( New Jersey ). Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1843 and then began practicing in Kingston , Ulster County . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .
In the congressional elections of 1852 for the 33rd Congress , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the eleventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Josiah Sutherland on March 4, 1853 . Since he on a run again in 1854 renounced, he left the after 3 March 1855 Congress of.
After his time in Congress, he went back to his practice as a lawyer in Kingston. In 1873 he was elected a judge on the New York Supreme Court . He died while serving as a judge on October 6, 1885 in Troy and was then buried in Wiltwyck Cemetery , Kingston.
literature
- Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 75 and 93.
Web links
- Theodoric R. Westbrook in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- Theodoric R. Westbrook in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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SURNAME | Westbrook, Theodoric R. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Westbrook, Theodoric Romeyn |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1821 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Fishkill , New York |
DATE OF DEATH | October 6, 1885 |
Place of death | Troy , New York |