Thomas Peabody Grosvenor (December 20, 1778 – April 24, 1817) was a

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from

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Early life

Thomas Peabody Grosvenor was born on December 20, 1778 in

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. He was the son of Seth Grosvenor (1748–1808) and the grandson of John Grosvenor (1711–1804) and Hannah Dresser (1711–1782). He pursued classical studies, and graduated from

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in 1800, where he was President of the Society of Brothers in Unity. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

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Career

In 1799, he wrote to then Maj. Gen.

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, recommending Mr. Joseph Hickcox to fill in the vacancy in the 13th Regiment of the Army of the United States caused by the vacancy in the line due to James Gordon's new role as Office of the Quarter Master. He was a member of the

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from 1810 to 1812, and was District Attorney of the Third District (comprising Columbia,

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and Rensselaer counties) from 1810 to 1811. Grosvenor was elected as a

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to the

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to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of

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, and was re-elected to the 13th and

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es, serving from January 29, 1813, to March 4, 1817.

Later career

Afterwards he engaged in the practice of law in

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, but died a month later. Among his papers, was a book he wrote, entitled ''A Sketch of the Life, last sickness and death, of Mrs. Mary Jane Grosvenor'' that was published posthumously.

Personal life

In March 1815, he was married to Mary Jane Hanson (1791–1814), the only daughter of Alexander C. Hanson, a lawyer and the

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, and the sister of

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(1786–1819), a U.S. Senator. Mary Jane died later that year in 1815 from consumption. Grosvenor died just fifteen months after his wife, on April 24, 1817, in

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, and was buried in

References

Notes Sources
''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 277 and 367; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) {{DEFAULTSORT:Grosvenor, Thomas Peabody 1778 births 1817 deaths People from Pomfret, Connecticut Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Members of the New York State Assembly County district attorneys in New York (state) People from Hudson, New York Yale College alumni

Early life

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Later career

Personal life

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