This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Warner, Whelpley, Stevens, DeBow, Shriner, Mellen, Croxton, Bayer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/4FFBAIB/976 Message Board Post: Wish to determine ancestry, of this former U.S. Senator, from NY. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SANFORD, Nathan, 1777-1838 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Senate Years of Service: 1815-1821; 1826-1829; 1829-1831 SANFORD, Nathan, a Senator from New York; born in Bridgehampton, Long Island, N.Y., November 5, 1777; completed preparatory studies; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in New York City; United States commissioner in bankruptcy in 1802; United States attorney for the district of New York 1803-1816; member, State assembly 1808-1809, 1811, and served as speaker in the latter year; member, State senate 1812-1815; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1821; chairman, Committee on Commerce and Manufactures (Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses), Committee on Naval Affairs (Fifteenth Congress), Committee on Finance (Sixteenth Congress); delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821; chancellor of New York 1823-1826, when he resigned, having been elected Senator; elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term commencing March 4, 1825, and served from January 14, 1826,! to March 3, 1831; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Foreign Relations (Nineteenth Congress); resumed the practice of law in Flushing, Queens County, N.Y., and died there October 17, 1838. Any information on his parents, or his Sanford Ancestry, will be appreciated. John D. Sanford, of CA. See my line at: www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/4453/johns.html