Arthur S. Tompkins

Arthur Sidney Tompkins ( born August 26, 1865 in Middleburg, New York, † January 20, 1938 in Nyack, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1899 and 1903 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Arthur Sidney Tompkins was born about two months after the end of the civil war in Middleburg in Schoharie County. The family moved in 1866 to West Nyack. He attended public schools until 1878 in Clarkstown and Nyack in Rockland County. He then studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1886 and then began practicing in Nyack. Between 1887 and 1889 he was Police Justice in Nyack. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. We chose him in 1888 as Chairman of the Rockland County Republican Committee. In 1890 he sat in the New York State Assembly. As a delegate he attended all Republican State conventions from 1888 to 1906 in part and as a delegate or substitute ( alternate ) on all Republican National Conventions from 1888 to 1900. He served in 1893-1898, the post of district judge, as well as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Rockland County.

In the congressional elections of 1898 for the 56th Congress Tompkins was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Benjamin Barker Odell on March 4, 1899. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1902, he retired after March 3, 1903 from from Congress.

After his conference time he walked in Nyack back to his work as a lawyer after. He was in 1906 elected a judge of the New York Supreme Court and re-elected in 1920 and 1934. In January 1930 he moved to the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York - a position which he held until his retirement in 1936. On January 20, 1938, he died in Nyack and was then buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery.