Thomas Beekman

Thomas Beekman (born July 4, 1790 in Kinderhook , New York , † February 2, 1870 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1829 and 1831 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Beekman was born in Columbia County about seven years after the Revolutionary War ended . He studied law and was admitted to the bar in New York. Beekman worked as both an attorney and a farmer. He moved to Smithfield , Madison County . There he held several local offices, including in 1824 as town clerk. He was active in the New York Militia and served as the aide-de-camp for the Commander of the 17th  Division . He was also a member of the anti-Masonic movement in the late 1820s and early 1830s.

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the anti-Jacksonian faction. In the 1828 congressional elections for the 21st Congress , Beekman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd  constituency of New York , where he succeeded John G. Stower on March 4, 1829 . He retired from the after 3 March 1831 Congress of.

After his time in Congress, he ran unsuccessfully as an Anti-Masonic for a seat in the New York Senate in 1831 . He later returned to Kinderhook. There he worked as a farmer again, but also pursued his work as a lawyer. He pursued several endeavors. He was on the board of the Kinderhook National Bank . He also served as Columbia County Excise Commissioner from 1857 to 1859 . After retiring in the 1860s, he spent summers at Kinderhook and winters with his daughter in New York City . He died in Kinderhook about five years after the civil war ended .

literature

• History of Columbia County, New York , Franklin Ellis, 1878, p. 79.
• The New York State Register , Roger Sherman Skinner, 1830, p. 54.
• The Proceedings of the Second United States Anti-Masonic Convention, Held at Baltimore, September, 1831 , Stereotyped at the Boston Type and Stereotype Foundry, 1832, p. 86.

Web links

• Thomas Beekman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Thomas Beekman in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Thomas Beekman on The Political Graveyard website
• Military Minutes of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York (1783-1821)