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Lucas Conrad Elmendorf (1758 – August 17, 1843) was a
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from New York.


Biography

Born in
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, he graduated from
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in 1782, studied law, and was admitted to the
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in 1785 and practiced. He was elected as a
Democratic-Republican The Democratic-Republican Party, known at the time as the Republican Party and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early ...
to the Fifth, Sixth, and Seventh Congresses, serving from March 4, 1797 to March 3, 1803. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1802 and was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1804 and 1805. He served in the
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from 1814 to 1817 and was the first judge of the
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(now county court) of
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, serving from 1815 to 1821. He was surrogate of Ulster County from 1835 to 1840. He died in Kingston in 1843; interment was in the crypt of the First Dutch Church.


Personal life

He was the son of Jonathan (1723–1798) and Magdelena (Smedes) Elmendorf (1728 – before 1765). His family was one of the first to arrive to Wiltwyck, now Kingston, New York and helped settle many parts of Ulster County, New York. Through his mother, he is a descendant of Louis DuBois. His 2nd great-niece, through his sister, Blandina Elmendorf Brodhead, was Cordelia Phythian, who married Joel R. P. Pringle.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Elmendorf, Lucas Conrad 1758 births 1843 deaths Members of the New York State Assembly New York (state) state senators New York (state) state court judges Princeton University alumni Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)