Reuben H. Walworth

Reuben Hyde Walworth ( born October 26, 1788 in Bozrah, New London County, Connecticut, † November 27, 1867 in Saratoga Springs, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1796 Reuben Walworth came with his parents to Hoosick, New York, where he attended the public schools. After that, he taught for some time as a teacher. After a subsequent law degree in 1809 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began in 1810 to work in Plattsburgh in this profession. In 1811 he became a district judge. During the British - American War of 1812, he was Colonel of the General Counsel ( Judge Advocate ) on the staff of General Benjamin Mooers.

Politically, Walworth member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1820 he was the first seat of the twelfth. Electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ezra C. Gross on March 4, 1821. Since he resigned in 1822 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1823.

Between 1823 and 1828 Walworth judge was in the fourth judicial district of New York. In 1828, he moved to Saratoga Springs. From 1828 to 1848 he held the office of Chancellor of the State of New York, which was the highest judicial office at the state level until its abolition in 1848. President John Tyler nominated him in 1844 as a judge of the Supreme Court. However, the appointment was rejected by the U.S. Senate. In 1848 Walworth ran unsuccessfully for the governorship of New York. He was for many years chairman of the American Temperance Union and Vice President of the American Bible Society, and died November 27, 1867 in Saratoga Springs.