MARCY, William Learned, a Senator from
New York; born in Sturbridge (now Southbridge), Mass., December 12, 1786;
attended the common schools and Leicester and Woodstock Academies; graduated
from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1808; taught school in Newport,
R.I.; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1811 and commenced practice in
Troy, N.Y.; served in the War of 1812; recorder of Troy 1816-1818, 1821-1823;
editor of the Troy Budget; State comptroller 1823-1829; associate justice of the
State supreme court 1829-1831; elected as a Jacksonian to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1831, until his resignation on January 1, 1833,
to become Governor; chairman, Committee on the Judiciary (Twenty-second
Congress); Governor of New York 1833-1839; member, Mexican Claims Commission
1839-1842; Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President James Polk 1845-1849;
resumed the practice of law; Secretary of State in the Cabinet of President
Franklin Pierce 1853-1857; died in Ballston Spa, N.Y., July 4, 1857; interment
in the Rural Cemetery, Albany, N.Y. - Biographical
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