Josiah Sutherland

Josiah Sutherland ( born June 12, 1804 in Stanford, New York, † May 25, 1887 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Josiah Sutherland was born in the beginning of the 19th century in the township of Stanford in the Village of Stissing in Dutchess County. He attended the district school and graduated in 1824 from Union College in Schenectady. Sutherland studied law in Waterford and Hudson. His admission to the bar he received in 1828, then began practicing in the Village of Johnstown ( Livingston Township ). From 1832 to 1843 he was district attorney in Columbia County. He retired in 1838 after Hudson. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1850 for the 32th Congress, he was the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Peter H. Silvester on March 4, 1851. Since he gave up for reelection in 1852, he retired after the March 3, 1853 out of the Congress.

He moved in 1857 to New York City, where he continued his activities as a lawyer. In 1857 he was beisitznder judge (associate justice) at the New York Supreme Court - a position which he held until 1871. During this time he was 1862-1870 on its own initiative (ex officio ) Judge of the New York Court of Appeals. Between 1872 and 1878 he was a member and presiding judge ( presiding judge ) at the Court of General Sessions. Then he took in New York City his work as a lawyer on. He died there on 25 May 1887. His body was interred in the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx.