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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkGershom POWERS
(1789-1831)
POWERS, Gershom, a
Representative from New York; born in Croydon, Sullivan County,
N.H., July 11, 1789; attended the common schools and was largely
self-taught; taught school in the town of Sempronius, Cayuga
County, N.Y., while attending the local law school, from which he
graduated in 1810; was admitted to the bar the same year and
commenced practice in Auburn, Cayuga County, N.Y.; appointed
superintendent of Auburn prison in 1820; first judge of the court
of common pleas of Cayuga County 1823-1828; elected as a Jacksonian
to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1829-March 3, 1831);
chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Twenty-first
Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1830;
appointed inspector of Auburn prison on April 2, 1830, and served
until his death; died in Auburn, N.Y., June 25, 1831; interment in
North Street Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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