U.S. Congressman. Graduated from Williams College, Massachusetts, in 1808. While a student there in 1806, he was one of five participants in the Haystack Prayer Meeting which is regarded as the launching point of the American Church Missionary service.
He was a professor at a college in South Carolina in 1810. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced it in Sodus, New York.
During the War of 1812, he served in the military and fought in the Battle of Sodus Point.
After the war, he was a member of the New York State Assembly (1816-1822) and served in the New York State Senate (1823-1824). In 1843, he was elected Democrat to the Twenty-eighth U.S. Congress, serving until 1845.
After leaving Congress, he lived in retirement until his death at age 79.
--Brock-Perry
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