Nicoll Halsey

Nicoll Halsey ( born March 8, 1782 Southampton, New York, † March 3, 1865 in Marshall, Michigan) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Silas Halsey was his father and Congressman Jehiel H. Halsey his brother.

Career

Nicoll Halsey was born during the War of Independence in Southampton in Suffolk County. The family moved in 1793 in Herkimer County, where they settled, which now forms the Town of Lodi in Seneca County. There he attended community schools. In 1808 he moved to Tompkins County and settled in Trumansburg. He was engaged in farming and operated a mill. In the years 1812, 1814, 1815, 1818, 1821 and 1826, he held the post of supervisor in Ulysses. He sat in the years 1816 and 1824 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1819 and 1821 he was sheriff in Tompkins County. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23th Congress, he was the 22nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward C. Reed on March 4, 1833. Since he gave up for reelection in 1834, he retired after the March 3, 1835 out of the Congress.

On February 11, 1834, he was appointed judge of the Tompkins County Court. He operated the mill again. On March 3, 1865, he died on a visit to Marshall in Calhoun County and was then buried in the Grove Cemetery in Trumansburg.