Wells Lake (politician)
Wells Lake (ca. 1773–?) was an American farmer and politician from New York.
Life
He lived in that part of the Town of New Paltz which was separated in 1845 as the Town of Lloyd, in Ulster County, New York.
He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Sullivan and Ulster Co.) in 1820-21; and (Ulster Co.) in 1823
He was a member of the New York State Senate (2nd D.) from 1825 to 1828, sitting in the 48th, 49th, 50th and 51st New York State Legislatures.
In 1834, he served as President of the Ulster County Jackson Republican Convention.[1]
References
- ^ "Voices of Ulster, Ulster County Jackson Republican Convention", The Evening Post (August 7, 1834), p. 2.
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 126f, 142, 197, 200 and 286; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- The History of Ulster County, New York by Alphonso T. Clearwater (pg. 270f)
- De Witt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men by Craig Hanyan & Mary L. Hanyan (pg. 258)
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