Theodoric R. Westbrook

Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook ( born November 20, 1821 in Fishkill, New York, † October 6, 1885 in Troy, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Theodoric Romeyn Westbrook was born about six and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Fishkill. He attended community schools and graduated in 1838 at the Rutgers College in New Brunswick (New Jersey). Then he studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1843 and then began practicing in Kingston in Ulster County. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1852 for the 33rd Congress, he was the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Josiah Sutherland on March 4, 1853. Since he gave up for reelection in 1854, he retired after March 3, 1855 from the Congress.

After his conference time he went to Kingston again his work as a lawyer after. In 1873 he was elected Judge of the New York Supreme Court. He died during his period of the judges on October 6, 1885 in Troy and was then buried in the Wiltwyck Cemetery in Kingston.