George William Palmer (New York)

George William Palmer ( born January 13, 1818 in Hoosick, New York, † March 12, 1916 in Plattsburgh, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1857 and 1861 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman John Palmer was his uncle and Congressman William E. Haynes was his cousin.

Career

George William Palmer was born about three years after the end of the British - American War in Hoosick in Rensselaer County. He attended community schools, the Schodack Schodack Academy and Yale College. He then studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1840 and then began to practice in Plattsburgh. He worked as a guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Clinton County. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1856 for the 35th Congress Palmer was in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George A. Simmons after March 4, 1857. After a successful re-election he resigned in 1860 to run again and was eliminated after March 3, 1861 the Congress of. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (35th Congress ).

After his time he took Congress in 1864 as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Baltimore in part. President Abraham Lincoln appointed him U.S. consul in Crete. In 1866, he was a federal judge on the International Court for Suppression of Slave Trade on the West Coast of Africa - a position which he held until his retirement in 1870. He sat in the years 1884 and 1885 in the New York State Assembly. Palmer worked as an iron manufacturer in Clinton. On March 12, 1916, he died in Plattsburgh and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery.