- William Dorsheimer
William Dorsheimer (
February 5 ,1832 Lyons,Wayne County, New York –March 26 ,1888 Savannah,Chatham County, Georgia ) was an American lawyer andpolitician .Life
He was the son of
Philip Dorsheimer . He studied atYale College from 1849 to 1851, but left without graduating because of a protracted illness. Then he removed toBuffalo, New York , studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1854. In 1859, he formed a partnership withSolomon G. Haven .In 1861, he joined the
Union Army as anaide-de-camp with the rank ofmajor and served on the staff of GeneralJohn C. Frémont , but after three months returned to civilian life.From 1867 to 1871, as a Republican, he was
United States Attorney for the Northern District of New York.He was a delegate to the 1872 Liberal-Republican National Convention at
Cincinnati, Ohio , and afterwards became a Democrat. He wasLieutenant Governor of New York from 1875 to 1879, and a delegate to the1876 Democratic National Convention . Afterwards he resumed the practice of law in partnership withDavid Dudley Field inNew York City .He was elected as a Democrat to the
48th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1885. In 1884, he published a biography ofGrover Cleveland , the Democratic candidate for the presidency, and in July 1885, was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York which office he resigned in March 1886.In 1885, he purchased the "New York Star" and began its publication as a daily paper on September 15. He was one of the founders of the
Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and theBuffalo Historical Society .He was buried at the
Forest Lawn Cemetery, Buffalo .ources
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* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9A00E3DA123AE63BBC4953DFBF66838D669FDE] Sketches of the candidates for state office, in NYT on September 1, 1876
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