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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkWAKEMAN, Abram
(1824—1889)
WAKEMAN, Abram, a Representative from New York; born in Greenfield Hill, Fairfield County, Conn., May 31, 1824; completed preparatory studies and was graduated from Herkimer Academy, New York; studied law at Little Falls, N.Y.; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in New York City in 1847; member of the State assembly in 1850 and 1851; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1855-March 3, 1857); unsuccessful Republican candidate for reelection in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1856; at the outbreak of the Civil War raised the Eighty-first Pennsylvania Volunteers; postmaster of New York City from March 21, 1862, to September 18, 1864; surveyor of the port of New York City; resumed the practice of law; died in New York City June 29, 1889; interment in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Wakeman, Abram. Speech of Hon. A. Wakeman, of New York, on the powers of the House of Representatives in contested-election cases
. Washington: Printed at the Congressional Globe
Office, 1856.
———. “Union” on dis-union principles; the Chicago platform, McClellan’s letter of acceptance, and Pendleton’s Haskin letter, reviewed and exposed; a speech delivered by Abram Wakeman, of New York, at Greenfield Hill, Conn., Nov. 3, 1864
. [New York: D.W. Lee, printer, 1864].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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