Lemuel Stetson

Lemuel Stetson ( born March 13, 1804 in Champlain, New York, † May 17 1868 in Plattsburgh, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1843 and 1845 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lemuel Stetson was born about eight years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Champlain in Clinton County and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and the Plattsburg Academy. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1824 and then began in Keeseville in Essex County to practice. He sat in the years 1835, 1836 and 1842 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1838 and 1843 he was district attorney in Clinton County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1842 for the 28th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Sanford on March 4, 1843. He retired after the March 3, 1845 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on District of Columbia.

After his conference time he took 1846 on the Constituent Assembly of New York. He sat in the same year in the New York State Assembly. Then he moved in 1847 to Plattsburgh. Between 1847 and 1851 he was a judge in Clinton County. It was started in 1860 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Baltimore in part. Then he went back to his work as a lawyer after. He died on 17 May 1868 in Plattsburgh and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery.