David M. De Witt

David Miller De Witt ( born November 25, 1837 in Paterson, New Jersey, † June 23, 1912 in Kingston, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Miller De Witt was born about nine years before the outbreak of the Mexican - American War in Paterson in Passaic County and lived there the first few years. The De Witt family moved in 1845 to New York and settled in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. There he attended the public schools, a select school in Saugerties and the local Academy in Kingston. In 1858, he graduated from Rutgers College in New Brunswick. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1858 and then began practicing in Kingston. He was in the years 1861 and 1862 Principal of the New Paltz Academy ( later a normal school in New York). Between 1863 and 1870 he was district attorney in Ulster County. He was defeated in his re-election bid. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1872 for the 43rd Congress De Witt 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 Eli Perry on March 4, 1873. Since he gave up for reelection in 1874, he retired after March 3, 1875 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went back to his work as a lawyer after and devoted himself literatischen work. Between 1878 and 1881 he was Assistant Corporation Counsel in Brooklyn. He sat in 1883 in the New York State Assembly. In 1884 he was Corporation Counsel in Kingston. On November 20, 1885, he was Guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Ulster County - a position which he held until December 31, 1886. He then worked as a lawyer again. On June 23, 1912 he died in Kingston and was then buried in the Rural Cemetery Wiltwyck.