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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkJohn SANFORD
(1803-1857)
SANFORD, John, (father of
Stephen Sanford and grandfather of John Sanford [1851-1939]), a
Representative from New York; born in Roxbury, Conn., June 3, 1803;
received a good education; moved to Amsterdam, N.Y., in 1821;
taught school in Amsterdam and afterward in Mayfield, where he also
engaged in mercantile pursuits; returned to Amsterdam and continued
in commercial pursuits until 1840; elected as a Democrat to the
Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843); founder of a
carpet manufacturing firm in New York, but the factory was
destroyed by fire in 1849, whereupon he retired from active
business; died in Amsterdam, Montgomery County, N.Y., on October 4,
1857; interment in Green Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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