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Daniel Cruger (December 22, 1780 Sunbury, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania - July 12, 1843 Wheeling, then Virginia, now Ohio County, West Virginia) was an American newspaper publisher, lawyer and politician who served as a United States Representative from New York.
Life
He learned the printer's trade, and published the Owego Democrat at Owego, New York. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1805, and commenced practice in Bath, New York. He served as a major in the War of 1812.
He was a member from Allegany and Steuben Counties of the New York State Assembly from 1814 to 1816, and from Steuben County in 1826. He was Speaker in 1816.
Cruger was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress, and served from March 4, 1817 to March 3, 1819).
He served as District Attorney of the Seventh District of New York from 1815 to 1818, and of Steuben County, New York from 1818 to 1821. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law.
He was buried at the Stone Church Cemetery in Wheeling, WV.
Sources
- Daniel Cruger at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- [1] Political Graveyard
Political offices Preceded by
Samuel YoungSpeaker of the New York State Assembly
1816Succeeded by
David WoodsUnited States House of Representatives Preceded by
Daniel Avery,
Oliver C. ComstockMember of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 20th congressional district
1817 - 1819
with Oliver C. ComstockSucceeded by
Caleb Baker,
Jonathan RichmondCategories:- 1780 births
- 1843 deaths
- Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York
- Members of the New York State Assembly
- Speakers of the New York State Assembly
- People from Pennsylvania
- County district attorneys in New York
- 19th-century American newspaper editors
- New York Democratic-Republicans
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