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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkGeorge William PALMER
(1818-1916)
PALMER, George William,
(nephew of John Palmer and cousin of William Elisha Haynes), a
Representative from New York; born in Hoosick, Rensselaer County,
N.Y., January 13, 1818; attended the common schools, the Schodack
Academy, Schodack, N.Y., and Yale College; studied law; was
admitted to the bar about 1840 and commenced practice in
Plattsburgh, N.Y., surrogate of Clinton County, N.Y.; elected as a
Republican to the Thirty-fifth and Thirty-sixth Congresses (March
4, 1857-March 3, 1861); chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the
Post Office Department (Thirty-sixth Congress); was not a candidate
for renomination in 1860; delegate to the Republican National
Convention at Baltimore in 1864; appointed United States consul to
Crete by President Lincoln; United States judge on the
International Court for Suppression of Slave Trade on the West
Coast of Africa from 1866 to 1870, when he resigned; member of the
State assembly in 1884 and 1885; engaged in iron manufacturing at
Clinton, N.Y.; died in Plattsburgh, N.Y.; March 12, 1916; interment
in Riverside Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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