Alfred Conkling

Alfred Conkling ( born October 12, 1789 in Amagansett, Suffolk County, New York, † February 5, 1874 in Utica, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives; later he became a federal judge.

Career

In 1810, Alfred Conkling graduated from Union College in Schenectady. After a subsequent law degree in 1812 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he began to work in Canajoharie in this profession. Between 1818 and 1821 he was a prosecutor in Montgomery County. Politically, he joined the Democratic- Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1820 Conkling was in the 14th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Fay on March 4, 1821. Until March 3, 1823, he was able to complete a term in Congress. Between 1825 and 1852 he was a judge at the Federal District Court for the Northern District of New York State. He first lived in Albany and then from 1829 in Auburn.

Between August 6, 1852, and the August 17, 1853 Conkling served as an American envoy in Mexico. He then settled in Omaha (Nebraska ), where he practiced until 1861 as a lawyer. He became a member of the Republican Party and was at times the State Chairman for Nebraska. He also took part in a constitutional convention of that State as a delegate. After 1861 he returned to New York, where he focused on literary matters. He first lived in Rochester, then in Geneseo, and finally from 1872 in Utica, where he died on 5 February 1874.

Alfred Conkling was the father of Congressman Frederick (1816-1891) and Roscoe Conkling (1829-1888), the latter was U.S. Senator.