William B. Rochester: Difference between revisions

{{Short description|American lawyer and politician (1789–1838)}}

| constituency = {{ushr|NY|20|C}} (1821–23)<br>{{ushr|NY|28|C}} (1823)

| term_start = December 3, 1821

| predecessor = [[Caleb Baker]]<br />[[Jonathan Richmond]]

| successor = [[William Woods (congressman)|William Woods]]

| birth_place = [[Hagerstown, Maryland]], U.S.

| parents = [[Nathaniel Rochester]]<br />Sophia Beatty

| spouse = {{plainlist|

*{{marriage|Harriet Irwin|1812|1815|reason=died}}

*{{marriage|Amanda Hopkins|January 31, 1816|1831|reason=died}}

*{{marriage|Eliza Hatch Powers|1832}}

}}

'''William Beatty Rochester''' (January 29, 1789 [[Hagerstown, Maryland]] – June 14, 1838) was an American lawyer and politician from [[New York (state)|New York]].<ref name="WBRbioguide">{{cite web|title=ROCHESTER, William Beatty – Biographical Information|url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=R000360|website=bioguide.congress.gov|publisher=[[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]|accessdate=5 September 2017}}</ref>

Rochester was a member of the [[New York State Assembly]] ([[Allegany County, New York|Allegany]] and [[Steuben County, New York|Steuben]] Co.) in [[40th New York State Legislature|1816-17]] and [[41st New York State Legislature|1818]]. Rochester was a [[presidential elector]] in [[1820 United States presidential election|1820]], voting for [[James Monroe]] and [[Daniel D. Tompkins]].<ref name="WBRbioguide"/>

Rochester was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] to the [[17th United States Congress|17th]], and re-elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the [[18th United States Congress]], holding office from December 3, 1821, until 1823. He was appointed as Judge of the [[New York State Circuit Courts|Eight Circuit Court]] on April 21, 1823, and resigned from the House of Representatives.<ref name="Hough1858">{{cite book|last1=Hough|first1=Franklin|title=The New York Civil List: Containing the names and origin of the civil divisions, and the names and dates of election or appointment of the principal state and county officers from the Revolution to the present time|date=1858|publisher=Weed, Parsons and Co.|url=https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog|page=[https://archive.org/details/newyorkcivillis00houggoog/page/n217 191]|accessdate=5 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> He resigned from the bench to run on the [[Bucktails]] ticket for [[Governor of New York]] in [[1826 New York gubernatorial election|1826]], but was narrowly defeated by [[DeWitt Clinton]].<ref name="WBRbioguide"/>

He was Secretary to the Special Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to [[Colombia]] in 1826, and [[Chargé d'affaires]] to Central America in 1827–28.<ref name="state">{{cite web|title=William Beatty Rochester|url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/rochester-william-beatty|website=history.state.gov|publisher=Department History – Office of the Historian|accessdate=5 September 2017|language=en}}</ref> He was appointed Chargé d'Affaires of Guatemala on March 3, 1827, and was commissioned to the Republic of Central America. He reached Central America, but returned to the United States without presenting credentials.<ref name="state"/><ref name="Jackson1980">{{cite book|last1=Jackson|first1=Andrew|title=The Papers of Andrew Jackson: 1825–1828|date=1980|publisher=[[University of Tennessee Press]]|isbn=9781572331747|page=247|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1BQxwXAs6AC&pg=PA247|accessdate=5 September 2017|language=en}}</ref>

In 1828, he was appointed by [[Nicholas Biddle (banker)|Nicholas Biddle]] as president of the branch of the [[Second Bank of the United States]] at [[Buffalo, New York]], remaining there until 1836.<ref name="WBRbioguide"/> He later served as president of the Bank of [[Pensacola, Florida]] and a director of the Alabama and Florida Railroad.<ref name="WBRbioguide"/>

[[File:William B. Rochester (US Army Paymaster General).jpg|thumb|right|150px|Brig General William Beatty Rochester Jr [[Paymaster-General of the United States Army]] 1882–1890]]

* William Beatty Rochester, Jr. (1826–1909), a [[Brigadier General (United States)|brigadier general]] of the [[United States Army]]<ref name="rochester"/>

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{{s-bef|before=[[Samuel Young (New York politician)|Samuel Young]]}}

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| before= [[Caleb Baker]], <br />[[Jonathan Richmond]]

| after= [[Ela Collins]], <br />[[Egbert Ten Eyck]]

| years= 1821 - 1823 <br />with [[David Woodcock]]}}

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