John Willard (judge)
John Willard (May 20, 1792 Guilford, New Haven County, Connecticut - August 31, 1862 Saratoga Springs, Saratoga County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
He graduated from
Salem, Washington County, New York
. In 1829, he married Elizabeth Smith (1794–1859). They were the parents of a daughter, Sarah Elizabeth (Willard) Fowler (1830–1852).
Willard was First Judge of the Washington County Court from 1826 to 1835; Surrogate of Washington County from 1832 to 1837; Judge of the
ex officio an associate judge of the New York Court of Appeals
in 1853.
At the
New York state election, 1855, he ran on the Hard Democratic ticket for a seat on the Court of Appeals, but was defeated by George F. Comstock, the Know Nothing
candidate.
Willard was Permanent Chairman of the
1860; and a member of the New York State Senate (15th D.) in 1862
.
He died at his home in Saratoga Springs, and was buried in Greenridge Cemetery in Saratoga Springs.
Willard's uncle, also named John Willard, was the husband of Emma Willard and served as U.S. Marshal for Vermont.
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 351, 356, 365 and 419; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 443)
- Memorial of John Willard LL.D. (1863)
- Court of Appeals judges at NY Court History
- POLITICAL MOVEMENTS; The Douglas Democratic State Convention in NYT on August 16, 1860
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