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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkPeter Buell PORTER
(1773-1844)
PORTER, Peter Buell,
(grandfather of Peter Augustus Porter and uncle of Augustus Seymour
Porter), a Representative from New York; born in Salisbury, Conn.,
August 14, 1773; was graduated from Yale College in 1791; studied
law in Litchfield, Conn.; was admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in Canandaigua, N.Y., in 1793; clerk of Ontario County
1797-1804; member of the State assembly in 1802 and again in 1828;
moved to Buffalo, N.Y., in the fall of 1809; elected as a
Republican to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses (March 4,
1809-March 3, 1813); declined to be a candidate for renomination;
appointed a canal commissioner in 1811; served in the War of 1812;
major general of New York Volunteers 1812-1815; presented a gold
medal under joint resolution of Congress dated November 3, 1814,
“for gallantry and good conduct in the several conflicts of
Chippewa, Niagara, and Erie”; elected to the Fourteenth
Congress and served from March 4, 1815, to January 23, 1816, when
he resigned; secretary of state of New York in 1815 and 1816;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor of the State of New York in
1817; regent of the University of the State of New York 1824-1830;
appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President John Quincy
Adams and served from June 21, 1828, to March 9, 1829; moved to
Niagara Falls in 1836; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in
1840; died at Niagara Falls, Niagara County, N.Y., March 20, 1844;
interment in Oakwood Cemetery.
Bibliography
Grande, Joseph A. “The Political Career of Peter Buell
Porter, 1797-1829.” Ph.D. diss., University of Notre Dame,
1971; Roland, Daniel Dean. ‘’Peter Buell Porter and
Self-Interest in American Politics.” Ph.D. diss., Claremont
Graduate School, 1990.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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