Marius Schoonmaker

Marius Schoonmaker ( born April 24, 1811 in Kingston, New York, † January 5, 1894 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Cornelius C. Schoonmaker was his grandfather.

Career

Marius Schoonmaker was born about in Kingston a year before the outbreak of the British - American War, and grew up there. During this time he attended community schools, the Kingston Academy and graduated in 1830 then at Yale College. His admission to the bar he received in 1833 and then began practicing in Kingston. He sat in the years 1850 and 1851 in the Senate from New York. Politically he belonged to the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32nd Congress Schoonmaker in the tenth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Herman D. Gould on March 4, 1851. Since he gave up for reelection in 1852, he retired after the March 3, 1853 out of the Congress.

After his conference, he took time in Kingston his work as a lawyer on. He worked as an auditor in the New York State Canal Department in the years 1854 and 1855. In 1854 he became superintendent of the banking department - a position which he held until 1856. He spent nine years as president of the Education Committee of Kingston and in the years 1866, 1869 and 1870 President of the Village of Kingston. In 1867 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York as a delegate. He was President of the Board of Directors of Kingston. On January 5, 1894, he died there, and was then buried in the Rural Cemetery Wiltwyck.