John C. Ten Eyck

John Conover Ten Eyck
John Conover Ten Eyck
United States Senator; from New Jersey
	In office; March 4, 1859 – March 4, 1865
Preceded by	William Wright
Succeeded by	John P. Stockton
Personal details
Born	March 12, 1814; Freehold Township, New Jersey
Died	August 24, 1879 (aged 65); Mount Holly Township, New Jersey
Political party	Republican

John Conover Ten Eyck (March 12, 1814 – August 24, 1879) was a United States Senator from New Jersey during the American Civil War.

Born in Freehold Township, New Jersey, he completed preparatory studies under private tutors, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and commenced practice in Burlington, New Jersey. He was prosecuting attorney for Burlington County in 1839 and 1840, and was a delegate to the New Jersey constitutional convention of 1844.

Ten Eyck was elected to the U.S. Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, 1859, to March 4, 1865; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection, and was appointed a member of a commission to revise the New Jersey State Constitution in 1875, and for a time was president of the commission. He died at his home in Mount Holly Township, New Jersey in 1879 and was interred in St. Andrew's Cemetery.^[1]

References

^ Staff. "THE HON. JOHN C. TEN EYCK.", The New York Times, August 26, 1879. Accessed March 1, 2011. "Ex-United States Senator John C. Ten Eyck died at his residence in Monnt [sic] Holly, N.J., at the age of 65 years."

Sources

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
John C. Ten Eyck at Find a Grave

U.S. Senate
Preceded by William Wright	U.S. senator (Class 2) from New Jersey 1859–1865 Served alongside: John R. Thomson, Richard S. Field, James W. Wall, William Wright	Succeeded by John P. Stockton

[1] Staff. "THE HON. JOHN C. TEN EYCK.", The New York Times, August 26, 1879. Accessed March 1, 2011. "Ex-United States Senator John C. Ten Eyck died at his residence in Monnt [sic] Holly, N.J., at the age of 65 years."

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Class 2	Paterson Dickinson F. Frelinghuysen R. Stockton J. Dayton Kitchell Condit Dickerson T. Frelinghuysen G. Wall Miller Wright Ten Eyck J. Stockton Cattell F. T. Frelinghuysen McPherson Sewell Dryden Briggs Hughes Baird Edge Baird Jr. Morrow Barbour Smathers Hawkes Hendrickson Case Bradley Torricelli Lautenberg Chiesa Booker

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