Thomas Tredwell

Thomas Tredwell

Thomas Tredwell (born February 6, 1743 in Smithtown , Province of New York , † December 30, 1831 in Plattsburgh , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1791 and 1795 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Thomas Tredwell graduated in 1764 at Princeton College in New Jersey , where he Jura studied. After his admission to the bar, he began practicing in Plattsburgh. Tredwell also had a political career. As a delegate, he participated in the Provincial Congress in 1774 and 1775, and in the New York Constituent Assembly in 1776 and 1777 . Then he was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1777 and 1783 . In 1778 he became a judge at the court of probate , a position he held until 1787. He then worked as a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) of Suffolk County until 1791 . During this time he sat in the New York Senate between 1786 and 1789 and took part in the New York Constituent Assembly as a delegate in 1788.

Politically, Tredwell was an opponent of the then federal government under President George Washington ( anti-administration group ). In May 1791 he was elected to the US House of Representatives, which was then still in Philadelphia , in the first constituency of New York , to fill the vacancy created by the death of James Townsend . In the following congressional elections in 1792 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives in the second constituency of New York, where he succeeded John Laurance on March 4, 1793 . Since he refused to run again in 1794, he resigned from Congress after March 3, 1795 . Tredwell then took part in 1801 as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly. He was then a member of the New York Senate between 1803 and 1807. After the end of his tenure, he retired from the political stage and worked until his death on December 30, 1831 in Plattsburgh as a guardianship and probate judge in Clinton County . His body was interred in a private cemetery in Beekmantown.

Congressman Thomas Treadwell Davis was his grandson.

Web links

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