Henry B. Metcalfe

Henry Bleecker Metcalfe ( born January 20, 1805 in Albany, New York, † February 7, 1881 in Richmond, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1875 and 1877 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Bleecker Metcalfe was born about seven and a half years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Albany, where he spent the first few years. His family moved in 1811 to New York City and from there in 1816 in Richmond County. He studied law and began after the receipt of his admission to practice as a lawyer in 1826 in City of New York. Between 1826 and 1832 he worked as a public prosecutor ( prosecuting attorney ) in Richmond County. He was elected District Judge in 1840 and served until his resignation in 1841 in this position. Between 1847 and 1875 he was back working as a District Judge. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1874 Metcalfe was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry J. Scudder on March 4, 1875. Since he resigned in 1876 to run again, he retired after March 3, 1877 from the Congress. During his time as a congressman he had presided over the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings. He died on February 7, 1881 in Richmond and was then buried in the Moravian Cemetery in New Dorp.