Tredwell Scudder

Tredwell Scudder ( born July 30, 1771 in West Hills, New York, † October 31, 1834 in Islip, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tredwell Scudder attended public schools and then went farming activities after. It was 1795, 1796 and 1804-1815 served as Town Supervisor of Islip. During this time he sat in 1802, 1810, 1811, 1814 and 1815 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1816 Scudder was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Henry Crocheron and George Townsend took on March 4, 1817 which previously together represented the first electoral district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Since he resigned in 1818 to run again, he retired after March 3, 1819 from Congress and went back to his farming activities. Scudder sat in 1822 and 1828 again in the New York State Assembly and was 1824-1833 again working as Town Supervisor of Islip. He died on October 31, 1834 in Islip.

Family

His parents were Sarah Brush and Joel Scudder. He married in 1791 Keziah Oakley, with whom he shared a daughter, Hannah Scudder ( 1798-1880 ), had.