Daniel Wardwell

Daniel Wardwell ( born May 28, 1791 in Bristol, Rhode Iceland, † March 27, 1878 in Rome, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1831 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Daniel Wardwell was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Bristol. In 1811 he graduated from Brown University in Providence. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Rome in Oneida County. In 1814 he moved to Mannsville. He was Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Jefferson County. Between 1825 and 1828 he sat in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1830 for the 22nd Congress was Wardwell in the 20th Election District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Joseph Hawkins and Jonah Sanford took on March 4, 1831 which had previously together represent the district in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1832 he ran for the 23rd Congress. After a successful election, he entered on March 3, 1833, to succeed Nathaniel Pitcher. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1836, he retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress. As a Congressman, he was Chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions ( 23rd and 24th Congress ).

After his time Congress, he returned to Rome, where he worked as a lawyer again. On March 27, 1878, he died there and was buried in Maplewood Cemetery, Mannsville.