Charles Humphrey
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Charles Humphrey (February 14, 1792 Little Britain, Orange County, New York - April 17, 1850 Albany, Albany County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Representative from New York.
[edit] Life
He moved to Newburgh, New York at an early age and attended the Newburgh Academy. Then he studied law. He entered the United States Army at the beginning of the War of 1812 as First Sergeant of Newburgh Company Number Five. He was commissioned a Captain in the Forty-first Regiment, United States Infantry, on August 15, 1813. After the war he resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in Newburgh, New York on January 11, 1816. He moved to Ithaca, New York in 1818, and engaged in the practice of law.
Humphrey was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1827).
He served as president of the village of Ithaca in 1828 and 1829. He was elected Surrogate of Tompkins County, New York, and served from March 4, 1831, to January 8, 1834.
He was a member from Tompkins County of the New York State Assembly from 1834 to 1836, when he was active in studying prison reform as well as education, and in 1842, and was Speaker in 1835 and 1836.
He was appointed clerk of the New York Supreme Court in 1843 and held that position until 1847.
He was buried at the City Cemetery in Ithaca, N.Y.
[edit] Sources
- Charles Humphrey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- [1] Political Graveyard
- [2] Google Books = John Stilwell Jenkins: History of Political Parties in the State of New-York (Alden & Markham, Auburn NY, 1846)
Selkreg, John H, Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York. Syracuse: D. Mason & Company, 1894.
| Preceded by William Baker, Jr. |
Speaker of the New York State Assembly 1835 - 1836 |
Succeeded by Edward Livingston |
