Thomas R. Gold

Thomas Ruggles Gold ( * November 4, 1764 in Cornwall, Connecticut, † October 24, 1827 in Whitesboro, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1809-1813 and 1815-1817 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Ruggles Gold grew up during the British colonial period. He pursued classical antiquity Sciences and graduated in 1786 at Yale College. Gold studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Goshen. In 1792 he settled in Whitesboro in Oneida County. Between 1797 and 1801, he worked as an Assistant Attorney General of New York. He sat 1797-1802 in the Senate from New York. In 1804, he ran unsuccessfully for the 9th Congress. He sat in 1808 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he is a member of the Federalist Party.

In the congressional elections of 1808 for the 11th 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 John Thompson on March 4, 1809. After a successful re-election he suffered in the years 1812 defeat and retired after the March 3, 1813 from the Congress of. He was then elected in 1814 in the 16th electoral district of New York in the 14th Congress, where he became the successor of Morris S. Miller on March 4, 1815. Since he gave up for reelection in 1816, he retired after the March 3, 1817 out of the Congress.

After his time he took Congress in Whitesboro his work as a lawyer on. He died there on 24 October in 1827 and was buried at the Grandview Cemetery.