- Cadwallader D. Colden
Cadwallader David Colden (
April 4 ,1769 Springhill, near Flushing, Queens County,New York -February 7 ,1834 Jersey City ,Hudson County, New Jersey ) was an American politician.Life
He was the grandson of Colonial leader
Cadwallader Colden . He was taught by a private tutor, and then provided a classical education inJamaica, New York and inLondon . After returning to the United States in 1785, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1791.He first practiced law in
New York City , moved toPoughkeepsie, New York in 1793, and then returned to New York in 1796. He was appointed district attorney in 1798 and 1810.He became a Colonel of Volunteers in the
War of 1812 .He was a member of the
New York State Assembly in 1818, andMayor of New York from 1818 to 1821. He successfully contested the election ofPeter Sharpe to theSeventeenth United States Congress and served fromDecember 12 ,1821 toMarch 3 ,1823 . He was a member of theNew York State Senate from the 1st District from 1825 to 1827, when he resigned.After his resignation from the State Senate, he moved to Jersey City where he devoted much of his time to the completion of the
Morris Canal .ee also
References
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/coker-coldwell.html] Political Graveyard
*CongBio|C000604
* [http://www.cityofjerseycity.org/pastimperfect/whitehousejerseycity.shtml "The White House, Where Aaron Burr arranged his memoirs", from "Historic Houses of New Jersey" by W. Jay Mills, 1902]
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