Marius Schoonmaker

Marius Schoonmaker, Congressman from New York

Marius Schoonmaker (April 24, 1811 – January 5, 1894) was a United States Representative from New York.

Biography

Schoonmaker was born to Cornelia (1784–1874) and Zachariah Schoonmaker (1785–1818) in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. His father died when he was young, but he attended public schools and graduated from Yale College in 1830. He was admitted to the bar in 1833 and commenced practice in Kingston.

Schoonmaker was a member of the New York State Senate (10th D.) in 1850 and 1851, and was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress, holding office from March 4, 1851, to March 3, 1853. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law in Kingston.

Schoonmaker was Auditor of the New York State Canal Department from 1854 to 1855, and Superintendent of Banks from 1855 to 1856. He was also President of the Kingston Board of Education for nine years, and was President of the Village of Kingston in 1866, 1869 and 1870. In 1867, he was a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68.

Schoonmaker died in Kingston and was interred in Wiltwyck Rural Cemetery.

Congressman Cornelius C. Schoonmaker (1745–1796) was his grandfather.

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress website http://bioguide.congress.gov.

• United States Congress. "Marius Schoonmaker (id: S000141)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. 

External links

•  "Schoonmaker, Cornelius". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900. 
• Marius Schoonmaker entry at The Political Graveyard
• Marius Schoonmaker at Find a Grave