John Sigsbee Pindar (November 18, 1835 – June 30, 1907) was an American lawyer and politician who served two non-consecutive terms as a
U.S. Representative
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from
New York from 1885 to 1887, then again briefly from late 1890 to early 1891.
Biography
Born in
Sharon, New York
Sharon is a Administrative divisions of New York#Town, town in Schoharie County, New York, Schoharie County, New York (state), New York, United States. The population was 1,843 at the 2000 census. The town is named after a location in Connecticut ...
, Pindar attended the common schools and Richmondville Seminary.
He studied law.
He was
admitted to the bar
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in 1865.
He served as president of the village of Cobleskill 1882–1884.
He served as chairman of the Democratic county committee for ten years.
Congress
Pindar was elected as a
Democrat
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Politics
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to the
Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887).
Career in between terms
He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1888.
He resumed the practice of law in
Cobleskill, New York.
He was an unsuccessful candidate in 1888 for election to the
Fifty-first Congress.
Return to Congress
Pindar was subsequently elected to the Fifty-first Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of David Wilber and served from November 4, 1890, to March 3, 1891.
Later career and death
He resumed the practice of law.
He died in
Cobleskill, New York, June 30, 1907.
He was interred in Cobleskill Cemetery.
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1835 births
1907 deaths
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
People from Sharon, New York
People from Cobleskill, New York
19th-century American legislators