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Cadwallader David Colden was born on April 04, 1769 at Flushing, New York, United States. He was the son of David and Ann (Willett) Colden.
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Cadwallader David Colden was born on April 04, 1769 at Flushing, New York, United States. He was the son of David and Ann (Willett) Colden.
Colden received his early education at Jamaica, New York, and, in the year 1784, at a classical school near London. Upon the death of his father in that year, he returned to New York City and began the study of law, which he subsequently pursued intensively at St. John, New Brunswick, under the expert guidance of the crown counsel, William Wylly, Loyalist émigré and again, on his return to New York, at Kinderhook. Colden was admitted to the bar in 1791.
Down to the War of 1812 Colden practised law in Poughkeepsie, New York, and in New York City; and served in the capacity of district attorney of New York City in 1798 and 1810. The New York law reports bear tribute to his ability and growing reputation in the stalwart age of Emmet, Wells, and Ogden.
As a member of the committee on the judiciary in the state Senate in 1825, Colden made a vigorous plea for the simplification of procedure and the codification of the law. Although in his earlier years he had manifested a reverence for the English system of jurisprudence, he now assailed its “useless and antiquated” formalities and fictions. The report of the committee foreshadowed the legal revolution of the next decade.
Though a Federalist, Colden supported the War of 1812, and served as colonel in the state militia, subsequently (1819) being raised to the rank of major-general. Elected to the state Assembly in 1818 with the indorsement of Tammany Hall, he openly supported Governor DeWitt Clinton, who, as head of the council of appointment, was wreaking political vengeance on that organization. Colden was rewarded by being appointed mayor of New York City to succeed Jacob Ratcliffe. In this capacity he served from 1818 to 1820. In 1821 he successfully contested the election of Peter Sharpe to Congress.
In his term in the New York state Senate, 1825-1827, Colden actively sponsored relief for the poor, and juvenile welfare, and his expert knowledge was marshalled in attacks on fanciful canal projects, and in urging further development of the port of New York. Colden was intensely interested in navigation and internal improvements. In 1825 he drew up for the city of New York a Memoir on the completion of the New York canals. In this he expressed his conviction that the Erie Canal would make New York the greatest commercial metropolis in the world. His Life of Robert Fulton (1817), is an uncritical but detailed survey of the inventor’s career, which minimizes the contributions of earlier pioneers in the field of steam navigation. During the years 1817-1819, Colden was engaged in the production of a number of polemical tracts supporting the patent rights of Fulton and the steamboat monopoly.
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Coden was a member of the Federalist Party. During his term in Congress he made a vigorous address in the House attacking the fugitive-slave law, in line with his earlier indorsement of the plan of Governor Tompkins for the Golden emancipation of slaves in New York.
Colden was an active Freemason. In 1815, he became president of the New York Manumission Society.
In 1793 Colden married Maria, daughter of The Right Reverend Samuel Provost, first Protestant Episcopal bishop of New York.
