Dwight Townsend

Dwight Townsend ( born September 26, 1826 in New York City; † October 29, 1899 ) was an American politician. He represented in the years 1864 and 1865 and 1871-1873 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Dwight Townsend attended the Grammar School at Columbia College in New York City. In the early 1860s he worked in the sugar business. He sat 1859-1865 in the original Board of Directors of the Equitable Life Assurance Society. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He was on December 5, 1864 in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the resignation of Henry G. Stebbins. In the congressional elections of 1870, Townsend was elected in the first district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Henry A. Reeves on March 4, 1871. Since he resigned in 1872 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1873 out of the Congress. As of 1875, he then went to his former shops. He died on October 29, 1899 in New York City and was buried in the Greenwood Cemetery in Brooklyn.