John H. Martindale

John H. Martindale

John Henry Martindale (March 20, 1815 Sandy Hill, Washington County, New York - December 1881 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) was an American lawyer, Union Army general and politician.

Life

He was the son of Congressman Henry C. Martindale and Minerva Hitchcock Martindale. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1831, and graduated in 1835. He was brevetted second lieutenant, but resigned from the army the next year and began to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1838, and commenced practice in Batavia, New York. In 1840, he married Emeline M. Holden. He was District Attorney of Genesee County from 1842 to 1846, and from 1848 to 1851. Then he removed to Rochester, New York.

In August 1861, he was commissioned a brigadier general of volunteers in the Union Army, and participated in all battles of the Peninsula Campaign in V Corps. After the retreat from Malvern Hill, he was brevetted major general of volunteers, and appointed Military Governor of Washington, D.C. which post he held from November 1862 to May 1864. Afterwards he returned to active duty, fighting in the Battle of Swift Creek and Drury's Bluff. In August 1864 he resigned his commission because of bad health.

As a Republican he was New York State Attorney General from 1866 to 1867.

In 1877, one of his clients tried to shoot him at his law office in Rochester, New York.

He was buried at the Batavia Cemetery in Batavia, New York.

References

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/martina-martinelli.html] Political Graveyard
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F07E2DF1130E03BBC4E51DFB767838C669FDE] The "attempted murder" at his office, in NYT on November 26, 1877
* [http://library.morrisville.edu/local_history/sites/gar_post/martindale.html] His obit, transcribed from NYT on December 14, 1881
* [http://www.oag.state.ny.us/previous_aglist.html] List of New York Attorneys General, at Office of the NYSAG
* [http://books.google.com/books?hl=pt-BR&id=T7AsAAAAIAAJ&jtp=36 Google Book] "Life Sketches of State Officers, Senators, and Members of Assembly in the State of New York in 1867" by S. R. Harlow and H. H. Boone (Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1867)

External links

* [http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngm/martindale.htm] Pictures of Martindale, at Generals and Brevets


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