Samuel Birdsall

Samuel Birdsall ( born May 14, 1791 in Hillsdale, New York, † February 8, 1872 in Waterloo, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1837 and 1839 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Birdsall was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Columbia County. He attended community schools. He then studied law in the office of Martin Van Buren. After receiving his license to practice law in 1812, he began practicing in Cooperstown. In the same year the British -American War broke out. In 1815 he was master of the New York Court of Chancery. He retired in 1817 after Waterloo. In 1819 he served in the Judge Advocate Division, where he held the rank of Colonel. He was Counselor at the 1823 New York Supreme Court and Solicitor at the Chancery. In 1827 he was Guardianship and estate Richer in Seneca County - a post he held until 1837. During this time he was in 1832 Bank Commissioner. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1836 for the 25th Congress Birdsall was in the 25th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Graham H. Chapin on March 4, 1837. Since he gave up for reelection in 1838, he retired after March 3, 1839, from from the Congress.

In 1838 he received an approval on United States Supreme Court to practice. He was 1846 district attorney ( district attorney ) in Seneca County. In 1853 he was postmaster in Waterloo - a post he held until 1863. He died there on February 8, 1872 and was buried at the Maple Grove Cemetery.