- Joseph B. Varnum, Jr.
Joseph Bradley Varnum, Jr. (
June 9 ,1818 Washington, D.C. -December 31 ,1874 Astoria, Queens , then Long Island City, now inQueens ,New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician.Life
He was a grandson of
Joseph Bradley Varnum . He graduated fromYale College in 1838, and was admitted to the bar in 1849.He was a Whig and later Republican member from
New York County of theNew York State Assembly in 1849, 1851 and 1857, and was chosen Speaker in June 1851, whenHenry Jarvis Raymond , the Speaker elected at the beginning of the legislative year, did not attend the special meeting.At one time he was a member of the Common Council of New York City.
Varnum died on New Year's Eve, 1874. He was buried in
Congressional Cemetery inWashington, D.C. ources
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9F05EED9173DE43BBC4953DFB766838E669FDE] Obit, in NYT on January 1, 1875 (misspelling the name of his grandfather)
* [http://www.congressionalcemetery.org/PDF/Obits/V/Obits_Varnum.pdf] Obituaries of J.B. Varnum, Jr. and other family members buried at Congressional Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
* Bio at famousamericans.com
* [http://books.google.com.br/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA240 Google Book] "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Weed, Parsons & Co., Albany NY, 1858)
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