Egbert Benson

Egbert Benson ( born June 21, 1746 New York City; † 24 August 1833 in Jamaica, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1789-1793 and in 1813 the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Egbert Benson grew up during the British colonial period and graduated at this time in 1765 at King 's College (now Columbia University). He studied law and began after receiving his license to practice law in New York City to practice. Benson was active in the American Unabhgängigkeitsbewegung. As a deputy, he took part in the 1775 provincial convention. Then he sat in the years 1777 and 1778 in the Council of Safety. In 1777 he was appointed the first Attorney General of New York, a position which he held until 1789. In addition, he sat 1777-1781 and in 1788 in the New York State Assembly. In the last year of the Revolutionary War he was appointed one of three commissioners, who directed the embarkation of the Tory refugees in the loyal British provinces. Between 1784 and 1801 he was an Associate Justice (associate judge ) at the New York Supreme Court Benson was in the years 1784, 1787 and 1788 a member of the Continental Congress. Last year he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York, which ratified the U.S. Constitution. Politically, he was one of the pro- administration of party.

In the congressional elections of 1789 Benson was selected in the third electoral district of New York at the time which meets even in New York City U.S. House of Representatives, where he was the first deputy of the district began his service on March 4, 1789. He was re-elected once. Since he resigned in 1792 to run again, he retired after March 3, 1793 from the Congress. He then worked 1789-1802 as regent at New York University. On February 20, 1801, he was appointed associate judge at the Federal District Court for the Second District. Between 1804 and 1816 he was the first president of the New - York Historical Society. During this time he was a member of the Federalist Party. In 1812 he was a candidate in the second electoral district of New York for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1812, to succeed William Paulding junior and Samuel L. Mitchill, which together previously represented the second district in the U.S. House of Representatives. On August 2, 1813, he resigned his Congress seat back. He died on 24 August 1833 in Jamaica and was then buried in the Prospect Cemetery.