John W. Cady

John Watts Cady ( born June 28, 1790 in Florida, New York, † January 5, 1854 in Johnstown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Daniel Cady was his uncle.

Career

John Watts Cady was born about seven years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Florida in Montgomery County. He attended school at the Old Stone Manse in Fort Hunter and graduated in 1808 from Union College in Schenectady. Then he studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he started in Johnstown (then in Montgomery County) to practice. He was in the years 1814, 1816 and 1817 Town Clerk in Johnstown. Between 1818 and 1822, and 1826-1829 he worked as a County Supervisor. He sat in 1822 in the New York State Assembly.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams - Clay Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Cady 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 Joseph Kirkland on March 4, 1823. Since he gave up for reelection in 1824, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Johnstown back to his work as a lawyer after. Between 1840 and 1846 he was District Attorney in Fulton County. He was justice of the peace in 1853 in Johnstown. On January 5, 1854, he died there, and was then buried in the same cemetery.

Family

He was with Maira Caroline Livingston (1794-1833), daughter of Catharine Marsh (1772-1854) and Beekman Livingston (1762-1842), married. The couple had four children together:

• Livingston Cady (1816-1846)
• David B. Cady (1820-1895)
• Anna ( Cady ) Pomeroy (* 1822)
• John Watts Cady (1825-1859)