Joshua Sands (politician)

Joshua Sands ( born October 12, 1757 Cow Neck (now Sands Point ), Queens, New York, † 13 September 1835 at Brooklyn, New York) was an American officer, merchant and politician.

Career

Joshua Sands received a limited education. When the Revolutionary War broke out, he enlisted in the army. He held the rank of captain. After the war, he pursued a political career. He was from 1792 to 1799 a Senate seat from New York. During this time he was a member of a committee that could decide on several formal defects in the gubernatorial election of 1792. The decision was made in favor of George Clinton. He was also a member of the 1796 Council of Appointments. On April 26, 1797 appointed him then U.S. President John Adams to the tax collector for the port of New York. He had this post when abberief until July 9, 1801 it U.S. President Thomas Jefferson. Thereafter, he was elected as a Federalist to the 8th U.S. Congress. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 March 1803 to 3 March 1805. Sands decided not to stand for re-election. He had then in 1824 the chair of the Board of Trustees of Brooklyn. Then he was elected to the National Republican Party in the 19th Congress. He worked there from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1827.

Joshua Sands died in 1835 in Brooklyn, was first (New York) buried at St. Paul's Church Cemetery in Eastchester, but then reburied in 1852 at the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Honors

The St. Ann 's Church, the first Episcopal Church in Brooklyn was named after him.