Caleb Tompkins

Caleb Tompkins (* December 22, 1759 in Scarsdale, New York, † January 1, 1846 in Scarsdale, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Caleb Tompkins grew up during the British colonial period. He sat 1804-1806 in the New York State Assembly. He then worked as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas and the District Court of Westchester County 1807-1811. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 Tompkins was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jonathan Ward on March 4, 1817. Since he gave up for reelection in 1818, he retired after March 3, 1819 from the Congress. He died on 1 January 1846 in Scarsdale and was then buried in the First Presbyterian Church Cemetery in White Plains. His brother was Governor Daniel D. Tompkins.