| 词条 | Charles Humphrey |
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Charles Humphrey (February 14, 1792 – April 17, 1850), was an American lawyer and politician who served as United States Representative from New York. LifeHe was born in Little Britain, Orange County, New York, but moved to Newburgh, New York, at an early age and attended the Newburgh Academy. Then he studied law. He entered the United States Army at the beginning of the War of 1812 as First Sergeant of Newburgh Company Number Five. He was commissioned a captain in the Forty-first Regiment, United States Infantry, on August 15, 1813. After the war he resumed the study of law, and was admitted to the bar in Newburgh, New York on January 11, 1816. He moved to Ithaca, New York in 1818, and engaged in the practice of law. Humphrey was elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress, and served from March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1827. He served as president of the village of Ithaca in 1828 and 1829. He was elected Surrogate of Tompkins County, New York, and served from March 4, 1831, to January 8, 1834. He was a member from Tompkins County of the New York State Assembly from 1834 to 1836, when he was active in studying prison reform as well as education, and in 1842, and was Speaker in 1835 and 1836. He was appointed clerk of the New York Supreme Court in 1843 and held that position until 1847. Humphrey married Ann Eliza Belknap (1797–1861) in Newburgh, New York in 1816. The couple had seven children, three of whom survived to adulthood: William Ross Humphrey (1820–1901), Charles D. Humphrey (1832–1870), and Sarah B. Humphrey Judd (1835–1904).[1] He died in Albany, Albany County, New York, and was buried at the City Cemetery in Ithaca, N.Y. Charles Humphrey is the namesake of Humphrey, New York.[2] References1. ^{{cite web|title=Finding Aid to the Charles Humphrey Papers, 1810–1849|url=http://www.nysl.nysed.gov/msscfa/sc20613.htm|website=New York State Library|publisher=New York State Library|accessdate=24 September 2014|ref=chfa}} {{CongBio|H000950}} Retrieved on 2009-5-162. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9V1IAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163#v=onepage&q&f=false | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=163}} Sources
Selkreg, John H, Landmarks of Tompkins County, New York. Syracuse: D. Mason & Company, 1894. {{s-start}}{{s-par|us-hs}}{{USRepSuccessionBox |state=New York | district=25 | before=Samuel Lawrence | after=David Woodcock | years=1825–1827}}{{s-end}}{{SpeakerNYAssembly}}{{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Humphrey, Charles}} 11 : 1792 births|1850 deaths|Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)|People from New Windsor, New York|Speakers of the New York State Assembly|American people of the War of 1812|United States Army officers|New York (state) National Republicans|19th-century American politicians|National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives|Politicians from Ithaca, New York |
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