Silas Halsey

Silas Halsey ( born October 6, 1743 Southampton, New York, † November 19, 1832 in Lodi, New York) was an American physician and politician. Between 1805 and 1807, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Congressman Jehiel H. Halsey and Nicoll Halsey were his sons.

Career

Silas Halsey grew up during the British colonial period. During this time he attended public schools. He studied medicine in Elizabethtown (now Elizabeth ) in New Jersey. Later he returned to Southampton, where he practiced medicine 1764-1776. During the Revolutionary War he lived for three years in Killingworth (Connecticut), but then moved back to South Hampton. He held 1784-1787 the post of Under Sheriff in Suffolk County and 1787-1792 the post as sheriff. In 1793 he went to Herkimer County, where he settled, which now forms the Town of Lodi in Seneca County. In the following years he practiced as a doctor again. In addition, built and he ran a flour mill ( grist mill ). Between 1794 and 1804 he was a supervisor in the Town of Ovid. He sat in the years 1797 and 1798 for Onondaga County and in the years 1800, 1801, 1803 and 1804 for Cayuga County in the New York State Assembly. As a parliamentarian he took in 1801 at the Constitutional Convention of New York. Between 1804 and 1813, and in 1815 he worked as a clerk in Seneca County.

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 1804 for the 9th Congress he was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Oliver Phelps on March 4, 1805. He retired after the March 3, 1807 out of the Congress.

Then he sat in the years 1808 and 1809 in the Senate from New York. He worked as a farmer. On November 19, 1832, he died in Lodi and was then buried in the Old Cemetery in Halsey South Lodi.