Frederick A. Tallmadge

Frederick Augustus Tallmadge ( born August 29, 1792 in Litchfield, Connecticut; † September 17, 1869 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, son of Congressman Benjamin Tallmadge (1754-1835) and grandson of founding father William Floyd (1734-1821), was born about nine years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Litchfield and grew up there. He enjoyed a good education and graduated in 1811 at Yale College. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School. His admission to the bar he received in 1811 and then began to practice in New York City in 1813. During the British -American War he served as captain. In 1834 he was a member of the board of aldermen of New York City and in 1836 he served as a Common Councilman. Between 1837 and 1840 he sat in the Senate from New York. During the last session, he was President pro tempore. Between 1841 and 1846 he worked as a recorder of New York City.

Politically he belonged to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1846 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Thomas M. Woodruff on March 4, 1847. Since he gave up for reelection in 1848, he retired after March 3, 1849 from the Congress.

Between 1848 and 1851 he worked as a recorder again. He was 1857-1862 Superintendent of the Metropolitan Police and 1862-1865 Clerk at the New York Court of Appeals. He then worked as a lawyer back in New York City. In 1869 he returned to Litchfield, where he died on September 17. His body was buried in the East Cemetery.