American politician
Samuel Young
(1779,
Lenox
,
Berkshire County, Massachusetts
– November 3, 1850
Ballston
,
Saratoga County, New York
) was an American lawyer and politician.
Life
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In 1813, he was Moderator of the Board of Supervisors of Saratoga County.
He was a member of the
New York State Assembly
(Saratoga Co.) in
1814
and
1814?15
; and was
Speaker
in 1814-15.
From 1816 to 1840, he was a member of the
Erie Canal Commission
.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate
(Eastern D.) from 1818 to 1821, sitting in the
41st
,
42nd
,
43rd
and
44th New York State Legislatures
. In
1819
. he was the Bucktails candidate for
U.S. Senator from New York
, but due to a three-cornered contest with Clintonian
John C. Spencer
and Federalist
Rufus King
, no-one was elected. Young was a delegate to the
New York State Constitutional Convention
of 1821.
In 1824 he was the
Bucktails
candidate
for
Governor of New York
, but lost to
DeWitt Clinton
. He was again a member of the State Assembly (Saratoga Co.) in
1826
, and was Speaker. From 1833 to 1838, he was First Judge of the Saratoga County Court.
He was again a member of the State Senate (4th D.) from 1835 to 1836, sitting in the
58th
and
59th New York State Legislatures
. He issued a concurring opinion in
Coster v. Lorillard
that was remarkable for its attack on the common law.
[1]
He resigned his seat on May 22, 1836. In November of the same year he was re-elected to the State Senate and served from 1837 to 1840, sitting in the
60th
,
61st
,
62nd
and
63rd New York State Legislatures
.
He was
Secretary of State of New York
from 1842 to 1845. He was again a member of the State Senate (4th D.) from 1846 to 1847, sitting in the
69th
and
70th New York State Legislatures
.
Young was a follower of Van Buren. At the 1844 Democratic National Convention, he was the sole vote of New York not to be cast for James K. Polk on the unofficial 9th ballot. He was Chairman of the
Barnburners
state convention which met on June 22, 1848, at
Utica, New York
and nominated
Martin Van Buren
for
U.S. President
. He was a Democrat.
He was buried at Briggs Cemetery in
Ballston Spa, New York
.
Sources
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- [1]
Political Graveyard
- Jabez Delano Hammond
:
The History of Political Parties in the State of New York
(Baltimore, 1850)
- [2]
History of Saratoga County
by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester (1878)
- The New York Civil List
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 33, 42, 131, 147, 318 and 364; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
References
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Coster v. Lorillard, 14 Wend. 265, 368-93 (N.Y. 1835).
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