Lyman Tremain

Lyman Tremain ( born June 14, 1819 in Durham, Greene County, New York, † November 30, 1878 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Lyman Tremain attended the common schools and the Kinderhook Academy. After a subsequent law degree in 1840 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Durham in this profession. In 1842 he was elected there to the mayor (Supervisor); In 1844 he became district attorney. From 1846 to 1851 he served as District Judge. Since 1853 he has been resident in Albany, where he practiced law. In the years 1858 and 1859, he practiced as a successor of Stephen B. Cushing from the Office of the Attorney General in New York State. At that time he was a member of the Democratic Party. He then moved to the Republicans. In 1862 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of lieutenant-governor of his state. Between 1866 and 1868 he was a member of the New York State Assembly, which he was president in 1867.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Tremain as a Republican in 33 electoral district of New York, who had taken all across the state, was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1873. Since he resigned in 1874 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1875. After his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Lyman Tremain worked as a lawyer in Albany. He died on November 30, 1878 during a visit to New York City and was buried in Albany.