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Abraham M. Schermerhorn

American politician

Summary

American politician

Field	Value
name	Abraham M. Schermerhorn
office1	3rd Mayor of Rochester, New York
term_start1	December 1836
term_end1	March 1837
predecessor1	Jacob Gould
successor1	Thomas Kempshall
order2	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from New York's 28th district
term_start2	March 4, 1849
term_end2	March 3, 1853
predecessor2	Elias B. Holmes
successor2	George Hastings
state_assembly3	New York
district3	Monroe County, 2nd
term_start3	January 1, 1848
term_end3	December 31, 1848
preceded3	new district
succeeded3	L. Ward Smith
birth_date	December 11, 1791
birth_place	Schenectady, New York, US
death_date
death_place	Savin Rock, Connecticut, US
party	Whig, Republican
spouse	Mary Kent Adams
alma_mater	Union College
profession	Banker
Politician

from New York's 28th district Politician Abraham Mans Schermerhorn (December 11, 1791 – August 22, 1855) was the third mayor of Rochester, New York and a United States Representative from New York.

Early life

He was born in 1791 in Schenectady. He completed preparatory studies and graduated from Union College in 1810. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1812, and in 1813, he moved to Rochester.

Political career

He became the "money king" of the Genesee region as the secretary of Rochester's first bank, before becoming a supervisor of the city in 1834.

In 1837, he became the third mayor of Rochester but resigned after two months to become secretary to the New York State Senate. He became a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 2nd D.) in 1848, and was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses, representing New York's 28th congressional district holding office from March 4, 1849, to March 3, 1853.

Personal life

Schermerhorn was married to Mary Kent Adams (1798–1865). Together, they were the parents of:

Susan M. Schermerhorn (d. 1846)
James Adams Schermerhorn (1816–1879), who married Sarah Maria Parker (1819–1874) in 1849.

In 1855, he died in Savin Rock, near West Haven, Connecticut. He was interred in Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.

References

[http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000122 Abraham M. Schermerhorn at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]
"Rochester Mayors Before the Civil War – Rochester History".
(1993). "The Salmon P. Chase Papers: Correspondence, 1823-1857". [[Kent State University Press]].

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