1850 LIFE SILAS WRIGHT NY STATE GOVERNOR SENATOR BOOK NEW YORK POLITICS HISTORY

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Offered is a wonderful book entitled The Life of Silas Wright, late Governor of the State of New York, with an appendix containing a selection from his speeches in the Senate of the US and his address read before the NY State Agricultural Society by John S Jenkins. John E Beardsley, Auburn and Buffalo 1850.378 pages + hard bound cover. See biography below.
Exlibrary, usual marks. Front cover detached but present and reattached with binders table library stamp over the type, original spine can be seen underneath. Some cover wear, including edges and corners, spine frayed at head and tail. Good text binding, bookplate ifc, inscription ffep, some light foxing throughout, some creased corners. Book measures 5 1/8"w x 7 7/8"h x 1 1/4". A nice find.
Biography:
Silas Wright, Jr. (May 24, 1795 – August 27, 1847) was an
American
Democratic
politician. Wright was born in
Amherst, Massachusetts
and moved with his father to
Weybridge, Vermont
in 1796. He graduated from
Middlebury College
in 1815 and moved to
Sandy Hill, New York
, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the
bar
in 1819. Wright commenced practice in
Canton, New York
. He served as surrogate of
St. Lawrence County
1821-1824 and then as a member of the New York State senate from 1824 to 1827. Wright was appointed brigadier general of the state militia in 1827.
In 1826, he was elected to the
Twentieth Congress
and served from March 4, 1827, to February 16, 1829, when he resigned. He successfully contested the election of
George Fisher
to the
Twenty-first Congress
, but declined to qualify. Wright served as Comptroller of the State of
New York
from 1829 to 1833, in which post he became a prominent follower of
Martin Van Buren
and a member of the
Albany Regency
that ran the state for the Democratic Party in this period. Wright was elected to the
United States Senate
in 1833 as a
Democrat
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
William L. Marcy
. He was reelected in 1837 and served from January 4, 1833, to November 26, 1844. In the Senate, he served as Chairman of the
Finance Committee
from 1836 to 1841.
Wright was offered the Democratic vice presidential nomination in 1844, as a sop to followers of Van Buren, who had been disappointed in his hopes for renomination, but declined instead running for the position of Governor of New York. He served as Governor from 1845 to 1846, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection, being defeated by the
Whig
candidate
John Young
.
Wright died soon after, aged 52, in Canton, on August 27, 1847 and is interred in Old Canton Cemetery.
The people of
Weybridge, Vermont
erected a monument to their local son and it stands today in the center of town along Route 23. The monument is the basis for the name of the local Monument Farms Dairy.
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