Dudley Selden

Dudley Selden (* 1794, † November 7, 1855 in Paris, France) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented from 1833 to 1834 and the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dudley Selden was born in the late 18th century. He graduated in 1819 from Union College in Schenectady. Selden studied law and began after the receipt of his admission to practice as a lawyer in 1831 in City of New York. He sat in the same year in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1832 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng, Campbell P. White and Gulian C. Verplanck took on March 4, 1833 which previously together represented the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, he joined on July 1, 1834 by his Congress seat back. He died on 7 November 1855 in Paris. His body was then buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.