Selah Tuthill

Selah Tuthill ( born October 26, 1771 in Blooming Grove, New York, † September 7, 1821 in Goshen, New York ) was an American politician. He represented the 1821 New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Selah Tuthill was born about two years before the outbreak of the War of Independence in Blooming Grove and grew up there. He attended public and private schools. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. He represented the Ulster County in 1805 and 1820 the Orange County in New York State Assembly. In the congressional elections of 1820 Tuthill was the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Walter Case on March 4, 1821. He died on 7 September 1821 in Goshen and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery in Marlboro. His nephew was the congressman Joseph H. Tuthill.