Thomas J. Oakley

Thomas Jackson Oakley (* November 10, 1783 in Poughkeepsie, New York, † May 11, 1857 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1813-1815 and the years 1827 and 1828 the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Jackson Oakley was born about two months after the end of the Revolutionary War in Poughkeepsie. In 1801 he graduated from Yale College. He studied law and began after the receipt of his admission as a solicitor in 1804 to practice in Poughkeepsie. He worked as a guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Dutchess County in the years 1810 and 1811. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. In the congressional elections of 1812 he was in the fourth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Emott on March 4, 1813. He retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress. Then he sat in 1816 and 1818-1820 in the New York State Assembly. In 1819 he was Attorney General of New York. At that time he joined the Jacksonian Group. In 1826 he was selected in the fifth district in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of Bartow White on March 4, 1827. On 9 May 1828, he announced his resignation in order to follow a appointment as Judge of the Superior Court of New York City, where he worked until 1847. In October 1847 he was appointed Chief Justice, a position which he held until his death on May 11, 1857. His body was buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery.