Thomas Tredwell

Thomas Tredwell ( born February 6, 1743 Smithtown, New York, † December 30, 1831 in Plattsburgh, New York ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1791 and 1795 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Tredwell graduated in 1764 at Princeton College in New Jersey, where he studied law. After qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in Plattsburgh. Tredwell also pursued a political career. As a delegate, he took in the years 1774 and 1775 at the Provincial Congress in part and in the years 1776 and 1777. At the Constitutional Convention of New York Then he was 1777-1783 a member of the New York State Assembly. In 1778 he was judge of the probate court ( court of probate ), a position which he held until 1787. Afterwards he worked until 1791 as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) of Suffolk County. During this time he sat 1786-1789 in the Senate from New York and took 1788 as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of New York.

Politically Tredwell was an opponent of the then Federal Government under President George Washington ( Anti- Administration Group ). In May 1791, he was elected in the first district of New York at the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of James Townsend. In the following congressional elections of 1792 he was re- elected in the second district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he became the successor of John Laurance on March 4, 1793. Since he resigned in 1794 to run again, he retired after the March 3, 1795 out of the Congress. Tredwell then took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York in 1801 as a delegate. After that, he was 1803-1807 Member of the Senate of New York. After the end of his term he retired from the political scene and was, until his death on December 30, 1831 in Plattsburgh served as guardianship and estate judge of Clinton County. His body was buried in a private cemetery in Beekmantown.

Congressman Thomas Treadwell Davis was his grandson.