Cadwallader D. Colden

Cadwallader Colden David ( born April 4, 1769 in Spring Hill, New York, † February 7, 1834 in Jersey City, New Jersey) was an American lawyer, soldier and politician. Between 1821 and 1823 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cadwallader Colden, David was born in Spring Hill in Flushing about six years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War and grew up there. He received private lessons and then studied classical antiquity studies, first in Jamaica ( New York) and then in London ( UK). In 1785 he returned to the United States, where he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1791, he began practicing in New York City. Two years later he moved to Poughkeepsie and from there, then in 1796 returned to New York City. Colden was in the years 1798 and 1810 the district prosecutor ( district attorney ) appointed. As an active Freemason, he was 1801-1805 and 1810-1819 of the First Warden (Senior Grand Warden ) of the Grand Lodge of New York. During the War of 1812 he served as Colonel of Volunteers.

Politically, Colden to the Federalist Party. He sat 1818 in the New York State Assembly and was, until his resignation in 1821 as the successor to Jacob Radcliff Mayor of New York City. In the congressional elections of 1820 Peter Sharpe was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded James Guyon junior and Silas Wood took on March 4, 1821 which previously together represented the first district in the U.S. House of Representatives. However, Colden could challenge on December 12, 1821 whose election successfully on the basis of incorrect application. Since he resigned in 1822 on his candidacy, he retired after the March 3, 1823 out of the Congress. Colden then sat 1824-1827 in the Senate from New York, where he took a leading role in the construction of the Erie Canal. Then he moved to Jersey City and devoted himself mainly to the construction of the Morris Canal. He died there on February 7, 1834, was buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City. His grandfather was Cadwallader Colden (1688-1776), colonial governor of the Province of New York

Memoirs

As a proponent of a national canal system Colden in 1825 commissioned to do during the last phase of construction of the Erie Canal by the municipal council of New York City, his work "Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York, and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the completion of the New York Canals. " to write. The plant and its appendix contain lithographic representations of canal construction and the highlights of the " Grand Canal Celebration".