Thomas P. Grosvenor

Thomas Peabody Grosvenor ( born December 20 1778 in Pomfret, Connecticut, † April 24, 1817 in Waterloo, Maryland) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1813 and 1817 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Peabody Grosvenor was born during the War of Independence in Pomfret. He studied classical classical studies and graduated in 1800 at Yale College. Then he studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1803 and began practicing thereafter in Hudson (New York). Between 1810 and 1812 he sat in the New York State Assembly. During this time he was in the years 1810 and 1811 District Attorney in Essex County. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

On January 29, 1813 Grosvenor, in the Sixth Election District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Robert Le Roy Livingston. After he was elected in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Thomas B. Cooke on March 4, 1813. He was re-elected once and then retired after the March 3, 1817 from the Congress of.

Grosvenor was the remaining weeks of his life in Baltimore (Maryland) worked as a lawyer. He died on 24 April 1817 in Waterloo and was then buried in Hudson.