Nathan Sanford

Nathan Sanford ( born November 5, 1777 Bridgehampton, Suffolk County, New York, † October 17, 1838 in Flushing, New York ) was an American politician ( Democratic- Republican), of the New York State in the U.S. Senate represented.

Lawyer and state politician

Born on Long Iceland Nathan Sanford studied after completion of schooling, the law, was admitted to the bar in 1799 and subsequently worked as a lawyer in New York City. He joined in 1803 the succession of Edward Livingston as Federal Attorney for the District of New York and remained until 1815 in this post.

During this time, Sanford struck a political career. From 1808 to 1809, and in 1811 he sat in the New York State Assembly, where he was elected on January 29, the Speaker of the Parliament chamber. But when he was missing due to illness at its next meeting on 10 February, chosen as the deputies with William Ross immediately for a successor. From 1812 to 1815 he was a member of the Senate from New York.

Senator and Judge

In 1814, Nathan Sanford ran for the first time for a seat in the U.S. Senate and was successful. He graduated between 4 March 1815 and the March 3, 1821 a full term in office in Washington, where he led, among other things, the chair of the Trade Committee ( Committee on Commerce and Manufactures ). After he retired, first from the Senate, took part as a delegate to the New York Constitutional Convention of 1821 and was from 1823 to 1826 the supreme court of the State of New York ( Court of chancery ) as Chairman ( Chancellor ) before; he followed there on James Kent.

In the presidential elections in 1824 Sanford was one of several candidates for the office of Vice-President. In the Electoral College, which was no clear decision on the election of the President and this had to be in the hands of the House of Representatives, he scored 30 votes and the second-best result after John C. Calhoun. This was supported by two main contenders for the presidency, John Quincy Adams and Andrew Jackson won and therefore unchallenged with 182 electoral votes.

1826 Sanford laid down his judge post, after he had won the election by almost a year vacant class -3 mandate of New York in the U.S. Senate. He returned on January 14, 1826 back to the Congress and remained there - in the meantime he had moved to the newly formed National Republican Party - until March 3, 1831; for re-election, he joined not to. He then worked as an attorney in the New York City borough of Flushing, where he died in 1838.

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