Silas Stow

Silas Stow ( born December 21, 1773 in Middlefield, Connecticut, † January 19, 1827 in Lowville, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1811 and 1813, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Silas Stow was born about one and a half years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in Middlefield. He attended community schools. Stow studied law, was given a license to practice law, but never practiced. He moved to Lowville in Lewis County, where he worked in agriculture. Then he worked as a Realtor ( land agent ) for Nicholas Low. He retired in 1797 after Oneida County. On 28 January 1801, he was appointed as a judge in Oneida County. Later he returned to Lewis 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 1810 for the 12th Congress, he was in the tenth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Nicholson on March 4, 1811. He retired after the March 3, 1813 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he worked in the years 1814 and 1815, the sheriff in Lewis County. Between 1815 and 1823 he was a judge in the same county. He died on January 19, 1827 in Lowville, and then was buried in the East State Street Burying Ground.