- Gideon Lee
Infobox Mayor | Gideon Lee
nationality=American
order=60th Mayor of New York [ [http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcas/html/features/greenbook_mayors.shtml Greenbook] ]
term_start=1833
term_end=1834
predecessor=Walter Bowne
successor=Cornelius W. Lawrence
birth_date=April 27 ,1778
birth_place=Amherst, Massachusetts
date of death=death date and age|1841|8|21|1778|4|27
place of death=Geneva, New York
spouse=
religion=
party=Jacksonian Gideon Lee (April 27 ,1778 Amherst, Massachusetts -August 21 ,1841 Geneva, New York ) was an American politician who wasMayor of New York andUnited States Representative fromNew York .Life
He attended the common schools. He became a shoemaker in
Worthington, Massachusetts . He moved first toNew York City and then to Georgia, where he was in the mercantile business. He returned to New York in 1807 and engaged in the leather business.Politics
He served as member of the
New York State Assembly in 1823, [ [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=2&res=9C02E7D91631EF34BC4D52DFB366838D679FDE&oref=slogin&oref=slogin nytimes.com] NYTMay 15 ,1866 ] and as alderman from 1828 to 1830. He wasMayor of New York from 1833 to 1834, but declined to be a candidate for reelection.Lee was elected as a
Jacksonian to the24th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofCampbell P. White and served fromNovember 4 ,1835 , toMarch 3 ,1837 . He then retired and moved toGeneva, New York .He was buried at the Washington Street Cemetery in Geneva, NY.
References and External links
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7574611 Find a Grave]
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