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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFerdinand Schureman SCHENCK
(1790-1860)
SCHENCK, Ferdinand
Schureman, a Representative from New Jersey; born in
Millstone, Somerset County, N.J., February 11, 1790; completed
preparatory studies; studied medicine at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons of New York, graduating in 1814; commenced practice at
Six-Mile Run (now Franklin Park), N.J.; member of the State general
assembly 1829-1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-third and
Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not a
candidate for renomination; trustee of Rutgers College, New
Brunswick, N.J., 1841-1861; member of the State constitutional
convention in 1844; judge of the State court of errors and appeals
1845-1857; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the State senate
in 1856; continued the practice of medicine; died in Camden, N.J.,
May 16, 1860; interment in a private cemetery at Pleasant Plains
(near Franklin Park), N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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