William Beach (c. 1815
Auburn
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,
Cayuga County, New York
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– March 14, 1860
Albany, New York
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) was an American politician from
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Life
Beach was the son of Assemblyman
John H. Beach (1783–1839), who came to Auburn from Connecticut in 1809 and established a
sawmill
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, a
gristmill
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, and a
linseed oil
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mill. He graduated from
Yale College
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in 1836, then studied law, but abandoned it after the death of his father. He engaged instead in the milling business in
Port Byron, New York
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. Later he entered politics and returned to Auburn. He was a member of the
New York State Senate
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Partisan com ...
(24th D.) from 1850 to 1853, sitting in the
73rd,
74th,
75th and
76th New York State Legislature
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Background
Under the provis ...
s.
Beach died at the Delavan House in Albany, and was buried at the
Fort Hill Cemetery
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in Auburn. His brother John C. Beach (d. 1856) was a law partner of
William H. Seward
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of State from 1861 to 1869, and earlier served as governor of New York and as a United States Senate, United States Senat ...
.
See also
*
List of New York state senators
This is a complete list of members of the New York State Senate, past and present. Members currently serving in the Senate as of July 2022 are highlighted .
See also
* New York State Senate
* Majority Leader of the New York State Senate
* New Y ...
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 136ff; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale College''(1870; pg. 11)
''The Cravath Firm and Its Predecessors''by Robert T. Swaine (pg. 84f)
in NYT on March 16, 1860
External links
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1810s births
1860 deaths
New York (state) state senators
New York (state) Whigs
19th-century American legislators
Politicians from Auburn, New York
Yale College alumni
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