Dorrance Kirtland

Dorrance Kirtland ( born July 28, 1770 in Coxsackie, New York, † May 23, 1840 ) 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

Dorrance Kirtland was born about five years before the outbreak of the War of Independence in Coxsackie and grew up there. In 1789 he graduated from Yale College. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Coxsackie. Between 1808 and 1838 he was Guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Greene County.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 he was in the eighth election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Erastus Root on March 4, 1817. He retired after March 3, 1819 from the Congress.

Between 1828 and 1838 he was a judge on the Court of Common Pleas. He died on 23 May 1840 in Coxsackie, and was then buried in the Old Cemetery Coxsackie.