- Garnett Adrain
Infobox Congressman
name = Garnett Bowditch Adrain
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state =New Jersey
district = 3rd
party = Democrat
term =March 4 ,1857 –March 3 ,1861
preceded = James Bishop
succeeded =William G. Steele
date of birth =December 15 ,1815
place of birth =New York City
date of death =August 17 ,1878
place of death =New Brunswick, New Jersey
spouse =
profession =Politician
religion =
footnotes =Garnett Bowditch Adrain (
December 15 ,1815 inNew York City –August 17 ,1878 inNew Brunswick, New Jersey ) was an American Democratic Partypolitician , who was a two-term member of theUnited States House of Representatives fromNew Jersey .Life
He was born to
Robert Adrain and Ann Pollock in a family of seven children. He moved with his parents toNew Brunswick, New Jersey where he attended public schools before he graduated from Rutgers College, New Brunswick, in 1833. He went on to study law in his brother's office from where Adrain was licensed as anattorney in 1836 and as a counselor in 1839. He married Mary Smith Griggs (1817-1886).He was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress and as an
Anti-Lecompton Democrat to the Thirty-sixth Congress, serving in Congress fromMarch 4 ,1857 toMarch 3 ,1861 , where he representedNew Jersey's 3rd congressional district . He was chairman of the Engraving Committee in both congresses.He was not a candidate for reelection in 1860 and went back to his profession as an attorney. He died in New Brunswick on
August 17 ,1878 , and his interment was done inVan Liew Cemetery, New Brunswick .Quotes
* "Secession—peaceable secession, as it is called ... in fact rebellion."
* "Nothing but a rope of sand, of no strength whatever to hold the States together, and which may be broken at any moment." ["Garnet Adrain to George Butler", February 10, George Bancroft MSS, Massachusetts Historical Society; Newton Herald, December 12, 1857.]Name
The name Bowditch in his name originates from
Nathaniel Bowditch , a prominent author who worked with his father [Richard William Farebrother, "Fitting Linear Relationships: A History of the Calculus of Observations 1750-1900" (New York, 1998), 83, ISBN 0-387-98598-0.] .References
External links
*CongBio|A000058
* [http://dlxs.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/pageviewer-idx?c=mayantislavery;idno=42926102;view=image;seq=1 State of the Union Address]
*findagrave|7737955|Garnett Bowditch Adrain
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