Cornelius Warren

Cornelius Warren ( born March 15, 1790 in Phillipstown, New York, † July 28, 1849 in Cold Spring, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1847 and 1849 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Cornelius Warren was born about seven years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Phillipstown, studied and completed his preparatory studies. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and began to practice. In 1841 he was appointed Judge of the Court of Common Pleas. Politically, he belongs to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1846 for the 30th Congress, he was in the eighth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William W. Woodworth on March 4, 1847. He retired after March 3, 1849 from the Congress. On June 28, 1849, he died in Cold Spring, and was then buried in the Old Cemetery. At the time of the Mexican -American War was about a year and half to an end.