Daniel Cady

Daniel Cady ( born April 29, 1773 in Canaan, New York, † October 31, 1859 in Johnstown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman John W. Cady was his nephew.

Career

Daniel Cady was born about two years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in Canaan and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools. He studied law in Albany. His admission to the bar he received in 1795 and then began in Florida (New York) to practice. He moved to Johnstown in Montgomery County, where he continued to work as a lawyer. Between 1808 and 1813 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was Village Trustee in 1808 and between 1809 and 1810 Supervisor. 1813 was district attorney in the fifth district of New York. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1814 for the 14th Congress Cady 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 Jacob Markell on March 4, 1815. Since he gave up for reelection in 1816, he retired after the March 3, 1817 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after. He was judge of the New York Supreme Court in the fourth district, where he worked from June 7, 1847 until his resignation on January 1, 1855. During this time he held the position in 1853 as a judge on the Court of Appeals. In the presidential elections of 1856 he ran as an elector ( presidential elector ) for John C. Fremont and William L. Dayton, both of which belonged to the Republican Party. He was president of the electoral commission ( electoral college ) from New York. On 31 October 1859 he died in Johnstown and was then buried in the same cemetery.