Peter Gansevoort (state senator)
Peter Gansevoort (December 22, 1788 Albany, New York – January 4, 1876) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Gen. Peter Gansevoort (1749–1812) and Catherine (Van Schaick) Gansevoort. He attended Williams College from 1804 to 1805,[1] graduated B.A. from the College of New Jersey in 1808, studied law with Harmanus Bleecker, attended Litchfield Law School from 1808 to 1809, graduated M.A. from the College of New Jersey in 1811, was admitted to the bar in 1811, and practiced in Albany.
He was Private Secretary of Gov. DeWitt Clinton from 1817 to 1819, and Judge Advocate General of the New York State Militia from 1819 to 1821.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Albany Co.) in 1830 and 1831.
In 1833, he married Mary Sanford (1814–1841), a daughter of Chancellor Nathan Sandford, and they had four children: Union Army Gen. Henry Sanford Gansevoort (1835–1871); Catherine (Gansevoort) Lansing, who married State Senator Abraham Lansing (a nephew of her stepmother) in 1873; and two children who died in infancy.
Gansevoort was a member of the New York State Senate (3rd D.) from 1833 to 1836, sitting in the 56th, 57th, 58th and 59th New York State Legislatures.
In 1843, he married Susan Lansing (1804–1874). He was First Judge of the Albany County Court from 1843 to 1847.
He was a director of the New York State Bank from about 1832 until his death; and a trustee of The Albany Academy from 1826 until his death, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 1856.
He was buried at the Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.
Leonard Gansevoort (1751–1810) was his uncle; and Author Herman Melville (1819–1891) and Commodore Guert Gansevoort (1812–1868) were his nephews.
References
- ↑ Friends of the Princeton University Library, he Princeton University Library Chronicle, Volumes 13-14, 1952, page 69
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 129ff, 141, 209f, 275 and 358; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- A Herman Melville Encyclopedia by Robert L. Gale (Greenwood Press, Westport CT, 1995; ISBN 0-313-29011-3; the Gansevoorts, pg. 149 to 159)
- PETER GANSEVOORT, obit in NYT on January 8, 1876
External links
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| Preceded by Lewis Eaton |
New York State Senate Third District (Class 2) 1833–1836 |
Succeeded by Noadiah Johnson |