Garret D. Wall

Garret D. Wall

Infobox Senator
name=Garret Dorset Wall


jr/sr = Junior Senator
state=New Jersey
party=Democratic-Republican, Democrat
term=March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1841
preceded=Theodore Frelinghuysen
succeeded=Jacob W. Miller
date of birth=March 10, 1783
place of birth=Middletown, New Jersey, USA
date of death=November 22, 1850
place of death=Burlington, New Jersey, USA
spouse=
profession=Politician, Lawyer, Judge
religion=

Garret Dorset Wall (March 10, 1783 – November 22, 1850) was a military officer and politician from New Jersey. Born in Middletown Township, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was licensed as an attorney in 1804 and as a counselor in 1807, and commenced practice in Burlington, New Jersey. He served in the War of 1812 and commanded a volunteer regiment from Trenton. He was clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1812 to 1817, and was quartermaster general of the state from 1815 to 1837. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1827 and was United States district attorney for New Jersey in 1829; Wall was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1829, but declined to serve; he was then elected as a Jacksonian (later, a Democrat) to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1841; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on the Militia (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses) and a member of the Committees on the Judiciary (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses) and Military Affairs (Twenty-fifth Congress).

From 1848 until his death, Wall was a judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey from 1848 until his death in Burlington in 1850. He was buried in Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington. [ [http://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/NJ/BU.html#R9T0WRDZO St. Mary's Churchyard] at The Political Graveyard. Accessed August 21, 2007.]

Garret D. Wall was the father of James Walter Wall, also a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.Wall Township,New Jersey is named in his honor

References

External links

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/walkinlawton-wall.html#R9M0JGGBS Garret Dorset Wall] at The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6938328 Garret Dorset Wall] at Find A Grave


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