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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJohn RUTHERFURD
(1760-1840)
Senate Years of Service:
1791-1795; 1795-1798Party: Pro-Administration;
FederalistRUTHERFURD, John, a
Senator from New Jersey; born in New York City on September 20,
1760; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton
University) in 1779; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced
practice in New York City in 1784; moved to a farm near Allamuchy,
Warren County, N.J., in 1787; presidential elector in 1788; member,
State general assembly 1788-1789; elected in 1790 to the United
States Senate; reelected in 1796 and served from March 4, 1791, to
December 5, 1798, when he resigned; president of the Board of
Proprietors of East Jersey 1804-1840; appointed by the New York
legislature as commissioner to lay out the city of New York north
of Fourteenth Street 1807-1811; moved to a large farm on the banks
of the Passaic River in 1808, which he called
“Edgerston”; appointed by the New Jersey legislature as
commissioner to determine the route and cost of a canal to connect
the Delaware and Raritan Rivers in 1816; served as a commissioner
to determine the boundary lines between the States of New Jersey
and New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania 1826-1833; died at his
home, ‘Edgerston,’ New Jersey, February 23, 1840;
interment in the family vault in the burying ground of Christ
Church, Belleville, Essex County, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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