Luther Badger

Luther Badger ( born April 10, 1785 Part Ridgefield, Massachusetts, † October 30, 1868 in Jordan, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Luther Badger was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Berkshire County. 1786, he moved with his father to New York. There he attended the 1807 Hamilton College. He studied law. After obtaining his approval in 1812 he began to practice in Jamesville in Onondaga County. The following years would overshadowed by the British -American War. Between 1819 and 1827 he served as a Judge Advocate in the 27th Brigade of the New York Militia.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams Group. In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress Badger was the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Elisha Litchfield on March 4, 1825. He retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress.

After his time Congress he resumed his activities as a lawyer. He moved in 1832 to Broome County. Between 1833 and 1847 he worked as an inspector on the New York Court of Chancery. During this time he was appointed in 1840 as Commissioner for U.S. bonds - a post he held until 1843. Furthermore, in 1846 broke from the Mexican -American War. He was elected district attorney of Broome County and held the post from July 5, 1847 until his resignation in November 1849. Afterwards he went to Jordan after his work as a lawyer. He died there about four years after the end of the Civil War. His body was then buried in the Jordan Cemetery.