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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyGarret Dorset WALL
(1783-1850)
Senate Years of Service:
1835-1841Party: Jacksonian; DemocratWALL, Garret Dorset,
(father of James Walter Wall), a Senator from New Jersey; born in
Middletown, N.J., March 10, 1783; completed preparatory studies;
studied law; licensed as an attorney in 1804 and as a counselor in
1807 and commenced practice in Burlington, N.J.; served in the War
of 1812 and commanded a volunteer regiment from Trenton; clerk of
the State supreme court 1812-1817; quartermaster general of the
State 1815-1837; member, State general assembly 1827; United States
district attorney for New Jersey in 1829; elected Governor of New
Jersey in 1829, but declined to serve; elected as a Jacksonian
(later Democrat) to the United States Senate and served from March
4, 1835, to March 3, 1841; unsuccessful candidate for reelection;
chairman, Committee on the Militia (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth
Congresses), Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses), Committee on Military Affairs
(Twenty-fifth Congress); judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals
of New Jersey from 1848 until his death in Burlington, N.J.,
November 22, 1850; interment in the churchyard of St. Mary’s
Church.
Bibliography
Proceedings of the Bench and Bar of New Jersey on the Death of
the Hon. Garret D. Wall. Burlington, N.J.: S.C. Atkinson,
1851.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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