appointments, among them a new postmaster at Troy, in NYT on May 19, 1866 The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War by Michael F. Holt (Oxford University Press US, 2003, , ; pages 650f) Bio, and portrait, in History of Rensselaer Co., New York by Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester (1880) [has a few typos] 1791 births 1866 deaths Politicians from Troy, New York Erie Canal Commissioners New York (state) postmasters New York (state) state court judges People from Marblehead, Massachusetts 19th-century American judges