Orange Ferriss (November 26, 1814 – April 11, 1894) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Born at

Glens Falls, New York Glens Falls is a city in Warren County, New York, United States and is the central city of the Glens Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 14,700 at the 2010 census. The name was given by Colonel Johannes Glen, the falls re ...

, Ferriss completed preparatory studies. He attended the University of Vermont at Burlington, where he was a founding member of the Lambda Iota Society. He studied law. He was

admitted to the bar An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are dist ...

in 1840 and commenced practice in

. He was the Justice of the Peace 1838-1841 and 1845-1848. He served as inspector of public schools in 1839 and 1840. Corporation clerk 1839-1842. County judge and surrogate of Warren County 1851-1863. Ferriss was elected as a Republican to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871). He served as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining (Forty-first Congress). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1870. He was appointed by President Grant as commissioner of southern claims and served from 1871 to 1877. Second Auditor of the Treasury from May 12, 1880, until his resignation on June 19, 1885. He retired to

, where he died April 11, 1894. He was interred in Glens Falls Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ferris, Orange 1814 births 1894 deaths Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American politicians Burials in Warren County, New York