Thomas J. Oakley

Thomas J. Oakley

Thomas Jackson Oakley (born November 10, 1783 in Poughkeepsie , New York , † May 11, 1857 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1813 and 1815 and between 1827 and 1828 .

Career

Thomas Jackson Oakley was born at Poughkeepsie about two months after the Revolutionary War ended . In 1801 he graduated from Yale College . He studied law and began practicing in Poughkeepsie in 1804 after receiving his license to practice law. He served as a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Dutchess County in 1810 and 1811 . Politically he belonged to the Federalist Party . In the congressional election of 1812 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fourth constituency of New York , where he succeeded James Emott on March 4, 1813 . He retired from the after March 3, 1815 Congress of. He then sat in the New York State Assembly in 1816 and between 1818 and 1820 . In 1819 he was Attorney General of New York. At that time he joined the Jacksonian faction. In 1826 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the fifth district, where he succeeded Bartow White on March 4, 1827 . On May 9, 1828, he announced his resignation to follow an appointment as a judge in the Superior Court of New York City, where he served until 1847. In October 1847 he was appointed Chief Justice , a position he held until his death on May 11, 1857. His body was buried in Trinity Church Cemetery .

literature

• The late Thomas J. Oakley , The New York Times, May 13, 1857

Web links

• Thomas J. Oakley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)