Richard McCarty (politician)
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Richard McCarty (February 19, 1780 – May 18, 1844) was an
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politician from
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Life

He was the son of Gen.
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(1737–1812; assemblyman in
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) and Charlotte (Coeymans) McCarty (1746–1828). He was born in that part of
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which was separated in 1791 as the Town of Coeymans. There he attended the
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s. He was County Clerk of Greene County from 1811 to 1813, and from 1821 to 1822. McCarty was elected as a
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to the
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, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823. He was President of the Lafayette Bank in
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and was one of the committee appointed to receive
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when he visited the United States in 1824 and 1825. McCarty died in New York City and was buried at the Adams Cemetery in Coxsackie. State Senator John McCarty (1782–1851) was his brother.


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:McCarty, Richard 1780 births 1844 deaths People from Coeymans, New York Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) People from Greene County, New York 19th-century American politicians