Gurdon S. Mumford

Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford ( born January 29, 1764 in New London, Connecticut, † April 30, 1831 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1811 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Gurdon Saltonstall Mumford grew up during the British colonial period and attended community schools at this time. He was his private secretary during the second half of the residence of Benjamin Franklin in Paris.

Two years after the end of the Revolutionary War, he returned with Franklin returned to America and settled in New York City. He and his brothers were in 1791 in the commission business operates. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. After Daniel D. Tompkins before taking office resigned his Congress seat, Mumford was in the second electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected, there to fill the vacancy. He was re-elected twice in a row and was there on 4 March 1805 until March 3, 1811 act, since it gave up a fourth candidacy. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Commerce and Manufactures ( 9th Congress ).

In the presidential elections in 1812, he appeared as an elector ( presidential elector ) and voted for DeWitt Clinton and Jared Ingersoll. In the same year he was elected president of the Bank of New York. The following year he opened a real estate agency ( broker 's office ) in Wall Street, and was a founder of the New York Exchange.

He died on April 30, 1831 in New York City and was buried in the Old Dutch Collegiate Church Cemetery.