David Wager (March 17, 1804 – July 27, 1870) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was a member of the
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature, with the New York State Senate being the upper house. There are 150 seats in the Assembly. Assembly members serve two-year terms without term limits.
The Assem ...
(Oneida Co.) in
1833
Events January–March
* January 3 – Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands (1833), Reassertion of British sovereignty over the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic.
* February 6 – His Royal Highness Prince Otto ...
and
1835
Events
January–March
* January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist.
* January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history.
...
.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate.
Partisan com ...
(5th D.) from 1836 to 1840, sitting in the
59th,
60th,
61st,
62nd and
63rd New York State Legislature
The 63rd New York State Legislature, consisting of the New York State Senate and the New York State Assembly, met from January 7 to May 14, 1840, during the second year of William H. Seward's governorship, in Albany.
Background
Under the prov ...
s.
In 1840, he married Mary Eliza Williams (c. 1811–1904), daughter of Judge
Nathan Williams (1773–1835). Their daughter Mary Wager married in 1863 State Senator
Alexander T. Goodwin (1837–1899).
Wager died on July 27, 1870.
David Wager and his wife were buried at the
Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica
Forest Hill Cemetery is a rural cemetery in Utica, New York founded in 1850. The cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017. Forest Hills Cemetery is located at 2201 Oneida Street, in Utica, New York. It is a non ...
.
Gen.
Henry Halleck
Henry Wager Halleck (January 16, 1815 – January 9, 1872) was a senior United States Army officer, scholar, and lawyer. A noted expert in military studies, he was known by a nickname that became derogatory: "Old Brains". He was an important par ...
(1815–1872) and Bishop
Henry Benjamin Whipple
Henry Benjamin Whipple (February 15, 1822 – September 16, 1901) was the first Episcopal bishop of Minnesota, who gained a reputation as a humanitarian and an advocate for Native Americans.
Summary of his life
Born in Adams, New York, he was ...
(1822–1901) were his nephews.
References
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pp. 131f, 147, 214, 217 and 313; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
Death noticeof his widow, in NYT on January 4, 1904
Marriage noticein ''American Masonic Register and Literary Companion'' (issue of January 11, 1840; p. 151)
* Genealogy of the Whipple-Wright Wager Ward-Pell Mclean-Burnet Families together with records of Allied Families by Chyarles H. Whipple 1917 p. 56
External links
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1804 births
1870 deaths
New York (state) state senators
Politicians from Utica, New York
Democratic Party members of the New York State Assembly
19th-century American politicians