Erastus D. Culver

Erastus Dean Culver ( born March 15, 1803 in Champlain, New York, † October 13, 1889 in Greenwich, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1845 to 1847 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Erastus Dean Culver was born about nine years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Champlain in Washington County and grew up there. In 1826 he graduated from the University of Vermont in Burlington. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1831 and then began practicing in Fort Ann. In 1836 he moved to Greenwich. He sat 1838-1840 in the New York State Assembly. Politically he belonged to the Whig party.

In the congressional elections of 1844 for the 29th Congress, he 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 Charles Rogers on March 4, 1845. He retired after March 3, 1847 from the Congress.

In 1850 he moved to the then still independent city of Brooklyn. He was 1854-1861 Judge of the City Court of Brooklyn. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him as the successor of Henry Taylor Blow to the Messenger (Minister Resident ) in Venezuela - a position which he held from 7 October 1862 to 17 May 1866. He died on 13 October 1889 in Greenwich and was then buried in the crypt Culver on the Greenwich Cemetery.