John H. Martindale

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John Henry Martindale (March 20, 1815 Sandy Hill, Washington County, New York - December 1881 Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France) was an American lawyer, Union Army general and politician.

[edit] Life

He was the son of Congressman Henry C. Martindale. He entered the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1831, and graduated in 1835. He was brevetted second lieutenant, but resigned from the army the next year and began to study law. He was admitted to the bar in 1838, and commenced practice in Batavia, New York. In 1840, he married Emeline M. Holden. He was District Attorney of Genesee County from 1842 to 1846, and from 1848 to 1851. Then he removed to Rochester, New York.

He was a general in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was Military Governor of Washington, D.C. from 1862 to 1864.

As a Republican he was New York State Attorney General from 1866 to 1867.

In 1877, one of his clients tried to shoot him at his law office in Rochester, New York.

He was buried at the Batavia Cemetery in Batavia, New York.

[edit] Sources

• [1] Political Graveyard
• [2] The "attempted murder" at his office, in NYT on November 26, 1877
• [3] His obit, transcribed from NYT on December 14, 1881
• [4] List of New York Attorneys General, at Office of the NYSAG

[edit] External links

• [5] Pictures of Martindale, at Generals and Brevets