Philip S. Crooke

Philip Schuyler Crooke ( born March 2, 1810 in Poughkeepsie, New York, † March 17, 1881 in Flatbush, Brooklyn, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1873 and 1875 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Philip Schuyler Crooke was born about two years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Poughkeepsie. He graduated there at the Dutchess Academy. He then studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1831 he began to practice in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. In 1838 he moved to Flatbush, a district ( borough ) of Brooklyn.

Between 1844 and 1852 as well as 1858 and 1870 he was a member of the Borough Council of Kings County. During this time he was its chairman in 1861, 1862, 1864 and 1865. In the presidential elections of 1852 he appeared as an elector ( presidential elector ) for the Democratic Party. Franklin Pierce was then the winner of the race. During the Civil War he was elected in 1863 as a Republican in the New York State Assembly.

In addition, he served four years in the National Guard of New York. During this time he rose from a private to brigadier general. He had in June and July 1863 the command of the Fifth Brigade of the National Guard of New York in Pennsylvania.

In the congressional elections of 1872 Crooke was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Robert Roosevelt on March 4, 1873. Since he gave up for reelection in 1874, he retired after March 3, 1875 from the Congress.

He then worked as a lawyer again. He died on March 17, 1881 in Flatbush and was then buried in the Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.