John Ludovicus Viele (June 6, 1788 Pittstown, then in Albany Co., now in

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– October 19, 1832

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) was an American politician from

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Life

He was the son of Ludovicus Viele (1742–1800) and Effie (Toll) Viele. On November 18, 1810, he married Kathlyne Knickerbocker (1792–1837), and they had eight children, among them Henry K. Viele (1819–1881), who ran in

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for Lt. Gov. of New York; and Gen. and Congressman

Egbert Ludovicus Viele Egbert Ludovicus Viele () (June 17, 1825 – April 22, 1902) was a civil engineer and United States Representative from New York from 1885 to 1887, as well as an officer in the Union army during the American Civil War. Biography Viele was bor ...

(1825–1902). John L. Viele entered

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in 1811, but left after a year. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and practiced in

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. He was a member of the

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(Middle D.) in

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, elected to a four-year term but legislated out of office by the

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of 1821. He was again a member of the State Senate (4th D.) from 1826 to 1829, sitting in the 49th, 50th, 51st and

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s. On February 6, 1832, Viele was elected by the State Legislature a Regent of the

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, but died later the same year.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 126ff, 145 and 338; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

at the Knickerbocker Family site

transcribed from ''Our County and Its People - A descriptive work on Erie County, New York'' by Truman C. White (The Boston History Company, 1898) {{DEFAULTSORT:Viele, John L 1788 births 1832 deaths People from Pittstown, New York New York (state) state senators Union College (New York) alumni New York (state) Democratic-Republicans 19th-century American legislators