Reuben Humphrey

Reuben Humphrey ( born September 2, 1757 West Simsbury, Connecticut; † August 12, 1831 in Marcellus, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1807 and 1809 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Reuben Humphrey was born during the British colonial period in West Simsbury in Hartford County and grew up there. He studied and completed his preparatory studies. During the Revolutionary War he enlisted as a private and was later retired as a Captain. Humphrey held several local offices. He spent five years as warden of Newgate State Prison in Simsbury. In 1801 he was living with Marcellus in Onondaga County. He was 1804-1807 First County Judge.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1806 for the 10th Congress, he was in the 16th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Uri Tracy on March 4, 1807. Since he gave up for reelection in 1808, he retired after the March 3, 1809 out of the Congress.

After his time, he was sitting Congress 1811-1815 in the Senate from New York. He worked in agriculture. On August 12, 1831, he died in Marcellus and was then buried in the Old Village Cemetery.