Tredwell Scudder

Tredwell Scudder (born July 30, 1771 in West Hills , New York Province, † October 31, 1834 in Islip , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1817 and 1819 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Tredwell Scudder attended public schools and then went into farming. He was the Town Supervisor of Islip in 1795, 1796 and between 1804 and 1815 . During this time he served in the New York State Assembly in 1802, 1810, 1811, 1814, and 1815 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the congressional election of 1816 , Scudder was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded Henry Crocheron and George Townsend on March 4, 1817 , who previously together were the first constituency in the US - House of Representatives represented. Since he refused to run again in 1818, he left the Congress after March 3, 1819 and went back to his agricultural activities. Scudder sat again in the New York State Assembly in 1822 and 1828 and was again active as Town Supervisor of Islip between 1824 and 1833 . He died in Islip on October 31, 1834.

family

His parents were Sarah Brush and Joel Scudder. He married Keziah Oakley in 1791, with whom he had a daughter, Hannah Scudder (1798-1880).

Web links

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

• Tredwell Scudder in the database of Find a Grave (English)