Thomas Peabody Grosvenor (December 20, 1778 – April 24, 1817) was a
United States representative from
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Early life
Thomas Peabody Grosvenor was born on December 20, 1778 in
Pomfret, Connecticut. 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
Yale College 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
Hudson, New York.
Career
In 1799, he wrote to then Maj. Gen.
Alexander Hamilton
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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
New York State Assembly
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from 1810 to 1812, and was District Attorney of the Third District (comprising
Columbia
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Greene and
Rensselaer counties) from 1810 to 1811.
Grosvenor was elected as a
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to the
12th United States Congress
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to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Robert Le Roy Livingston, and was re-elected to the
13th
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and
14th United States Congress
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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
Baltimore, Maryland
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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
Chancellor of Maryland, and the sister of
Alexander Contee Hanson (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
Waterloo, Maryland, and was buried in
Hudson, New York.
See also
*
Charles H. Grosvenor
Charles Henry Grosvenor (September 20, 1833 – October 30, 1917) was a multiple-term U.S. Representative from Ohio, as well as a brigade commander in the Union Army during the American Civil War.
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Grosvenor was born in Pomfret, C ...
References
Notes
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 277 and 367; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
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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