Simeon Baldwin (December 14, 1761 – May 26, 1851) was son-in-law of

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, father of Connecticut Governor and US Senator

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, grandfather of Connecticut Governor & Chief Justice Simeon E. Baldwin and great-grandfather of New York Supreme Court Justice

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. He was born in

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in the

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. He completed preparatory studies (studying with Rev. Joseph Huntington and later at the Master Tisdale's School in Lebanon, Connecticut, and graduated from

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in 1781. He delivered the Latin oration in June 1782; it is still preserved in the Yale University Library. He was preceptor of the academy at Albany, and a Tutor at his alma mater. He then studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in

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. He was elected New Haven city clerk in 1790 was appointed clerk of the District and Circuit Courts of the United States for the District of Connecticut and served until November 1803, when he resigned, having been elected to Congress. Baldwin was elected as a

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to the Eighth Congress (March 4, 1803 – March 3, 1805). He declined to be a candidate for reelection, and was again appointed to his former clerkship, but was removed by Judge Edwards in 1806. He served as associate judge of the Superior Court (1806–08) and the Connecticut Supreme Court of Errors (1808–18). He was president of the board of commissioners that located the Farmington Canal, and was Mayor of New Haven. He died at 89 years old and was interred at

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. He married Rebecca, daughter of Hon.

, who died on September 4, 1795, and then married her sister Elizabeth Sherman Burr.

References

American National Biography The ''American National Biography'' (ANB) is a 24-volume biographical encyclopedia set that contains about 17,400 entries and 20 million words, first published in 1999 by Oxford University Press under the auspices of the American Council of Lea ...

, vol. 2, pp. 64–65.

External links

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Simeon Baldwin
Connecticut State Library
US Representative Simeon Baldwin
US Congressional Biography *
Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England
By Thomas Townsend Sherman
Life and letters if Simeon BaldwinFrom Alexander Hamilton to Simeon Baldwin, 1 May 1802Guide to Research CollectionsBaldwin Family Papers (MS 55).
Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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