CONGRESSMAN UTICA ONEIDA COUNTY NY SENATOR EDITOR JUDGE FLOYD AUTOGRAPH SIGNED !

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JOHN GELSTON FLOYD
(1806 – 1881)
UNITED STATES CIVIL WAR ANTEBELLUM DEMOCRATIC PARTY CONGRESSMAN FROM UTICA, ONEIDA COUNTY, NEW YORK 1839-1843 and 1851-1853,
STATE SENATOR FROM NEW YORK’S 1
ST
DISTRICT 1848-9,
MEMBER OF THE NEW YORK STATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES (ASSEMBLY) 1839-1843,
PROSECUTOR OF
UTICA, NEW YORK
1829-1833,
FOUNDER OF THE
“UTICA DEMOCRAT
” (LATER THE “
OBSERVER-DISPATCH
”) IN 1836
&
APPOINTED JUDGE OF SUFFOLK COUNTY IN THE 1830s BY THEN NY GOVERNOR (and LATER SECRETARY OF WAR and STATE), WILLIAM L. MARCY
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HERE’S FLOYD’S SIGNATURE REMOVED FROM A 19
th
CENTURY CONGRESSIONAL AUTOGRAPH ALBUM, and SIGNED:
“
Jno. G. Floyd
Oneida Co
N. y~”
The document measures 6” x 2-1/8” and is in VF CONDITION.
A Fine Piece of New York Political History.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF THE HONORABLE
JOHN GELSTON FLOYD
John Gelston Floyd
(February 5, 1806 – October 5, 1881) was a
U.S. Representative
from New York, grandson of
William Floyd
.
Life and career
Floyd was born in
Mastic
near Moriches,
Long Island, New York
, the son of Phoebe (Gelston) and Nicoll Floyd.
Floyd attended the common schools, and was graduated from Hamilton College,
Clinton, New York
, in 1824. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and commenced practice in
Utica, Oneida County, New York
.
He served as Clerk and Prosecutor of
Utica, New York
from 1829 to 1833. He founded the Utica Democrat (later the Observer-Dispatch) in 1836. He was appointed Judge of Suffolk County.
Floyd was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Twenty-sixth
and
Twenty-seventh
Congresses (March 4, 1839 – March 3, 1843). He returned to Mastic, Long Island, about 1842. He was a member of the
New York State Senate
(1st D.) in
1848
and
1849
.
Floyd was elected to the
Thirty-second
Congress (March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853). He served as chairman of the Committee on Agriculture (Thirty-second Congress).
He joined the
Republican Party
upon its formation in 1856. He retired from public life. He died in Mastic,
Long Island, New York
on October 5, 1881. He was interred in the family cemetery.
John G. Floyd is a great-great-grandfather of Republican Governor, and 2020 Presidential candidate
Bill Weld
.
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