Sanford, Jonah, 1790-1867

LC control no.	nr 92015571
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Sanford, Jonah, 1790-1867 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Birth date	1790-11-30
Death date	1867-12-25
Place of birth	Cornwall (Vt.)
Place of death	Hopkinton (N.Y.)
Affiliation	New York (State). Assembly United States. Congress. House New York (State). Militia
Profession or occupation	Justice of the peace Lawyer Supervisor
Found in	Richards, J. In Assembly, February 11, 1828. Report of the commissioners, relative to a road from Lake Champlain to Hopkinton, 1828: p. 2 (Jonah Sanford; commissioner) Sanford, C.E. Thomas Sanford, 1911: p. 451, etc. (Jonah Sanford; served in War of 1812; justice of the peace, 1818-40; lawyer; supervisor, Hopkinton, N.Y., 1823-26; appointed a commissioner by act of legislature to lay out a state road, 1827; mem., N.Y. State Assembly, 1829-30; mem., 21st Congress, 1830-31; mem., N.Y. State Militia; judge, court of common pleas, 1831-37; served in Civil War; b. 11/30/1790; d. 12/25/1867) Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, viewed online, July 10, 2017 (SANFORD, Jonah, (great-grandfather of Rollin Brewster Sanford), a Representative from New York; born in Cornwall, Vt., Nov. 30, 1790; attended the district schools; moved to Hopkinton, N.Y., in 1811; enlisted as a volunteer and participated in the battle at Plattsburg, Sept. 11, 1814; appointed justice of the peace in 1818 and served for twenty-two years; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in Franklin County; supervisor of Hopkinton 1823-1826; commissioned a captain of Volunteer Cavalry in 1827; promoted to lieutenant colonel in 1828, colonel in 1831, and brigadier general of State militia in 1832 and 1833; member of the State assembly in 1829 and 1830; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Silas Wright, Jr., and served from Nov. 3, 1830, to Mar. 3, 1831; judge of the court of common pleas 1831-1837; delegate to the convention to revise the State constitution in 1846; became a Republican upon the formation of that party in 1856; raised a regiment during the Civil War and was elected its colonel; died in Hopkinton, St. Lawrence County, N.Y., on December 25, 1867; interment in Hopkinton Cemetery)