Robert Monell

Robert Monell ( born April 25, 1787 Claverack, New York, † November 29, 1860 in Greene, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1819-1821 and 1829-1831 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Robert Monell was born about two years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Claverack in Columbia County. He pursued classical antiquity science. Then he studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1809 and then began practicing in Binghamton. In 1811 he moved to Greene in Chenango County, where he continued to work as a lawyer. He sat in the years 1814 and 1815 in the New York State Assembly.

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 1818 for the 16th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Isaac Williams Jr. and John R. Drake took on March 4, 1819 which had previously together represent the district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He retired after the March 3, 1821 out of the Congress.

Monell sat in the years 1825, 1826 and 1828 again in the New York State Assembly. He was district attorney in 1827 in Chenango County.

In the following time he joined the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1828 for the 21th Congress he was a candidate in the 21st electoral district of New York for the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of John C. Clark after March 4, 1829. He stood before the end of his term returns on February 3, 1831 by his seat.

Between 1831 and 1845 he was a district judge in the Sixth Judicial District. He then worked as a clerk in 1846 at the New York Supreme Court After that he went back to his work as a lawyer after. On November 29, 1860, he died in Greene and was then buried in the Cemetery Hornby. About five months later, the Civil War broke out.