Henry R. Selden

Henry Rogers Selden ( born October 14, 1805 in Lyme, New London County, Connecticut; † September 18, 1885 ) was an American lawyer and politician who was 1857-1858 Vice- Governor of the U.S. state of New York. Later he defended in June 1873 Susan B. Anthony, who was accused of illegally influencing choice. She was the first woman to be registered as a voter at a presidential election in the United States and gave their vote in the election of 1872.

Career

Henry Selden was the son of Calvin Selden and Phebe (Ely ) Selden. He moved to Rochester (New York) and began there in 1825 Jura in the law firm of Addison Gardiner and his brother Samuel L. Selden study. His admission to the bar he received in 1830 and then began in Clarkson (New York) to practice.

On September 25, 1834, he married Laura Anne Baldwin in Clarkson. The couple had five children together, three sons and two daughters. One of these sons was George Baldwin Selden, the first person a patent for an automobile was granted.

Selden in 1851, the rapporteur on the Court of Appeals of New York. He was originally a Democrat, but later became an abolitionist and in 1856 a founding member of the Republican Party of New York. In the same year he was elected lieutenant governor. The Yale College in 1858 awarded him the LL.D. (Doctor of Laws ). Selden returned in 1859 to Rochester back. In the following year he was then working as a delegate to the Republican National Convention.

In July 1862 Henry Selden was appointed Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York. He filled there the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother, Samuel, was born. In November 1863 he was re-elected for an eight -year term, but resigned on January 2, 1865. The Republican Party nominated him in 1870 for the post of Chief Judges at the Court of Appeals of New York, but he was defeated by the Democrats Sanford E. Church.

1872 Selden took at the convention of the Liberal Republican Party in Cincinnati part. The partisan dispute led to his retirement from politics. He then spent the rest of the year and the first half of the following year with Anthony's case for which he never asked Anthony a bill. Selden then retired back in 1879 of the profession of lawyer.

Honors

The Fort Seldon in New Mexico was named in his honor.