DEPEW, Chauncey Mitchell was born on April 23, 1834 in Peekskill, New York, United States. Son of Isaac Depew and Martha Mitchell, granddaughter of Reverend Josiah Sherman, brother of Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1856 (Doctor of Laws, 1887).
2d, May Palmer, December, 1901. Admitted to bar, 1858. Member of New York Assembly, 1861-1862.
Secretary of state of New York, 1863.
Appointed and confirmed United States minister to Japan, but declined. Defeated for lieutenant governor New York on Liberal Republican ticket, 1872.
Attorney for New York & Harlem Railroad, 1866. Foreign New York City&Hassaram Rijhumal Railroad, 1869, general counsel, 1875, Second vice president same, 1882, president same, 1885-1898.
Also president, until 1898, West Shore Railroad From 1898 Chairman, Board Of Directors New York Central Railroad Director Western Union Telegraph Company, West Shore Railroad, C.&North.W. Railway Company, C.,Street.P.,M.&O. Railway Company, C.,C.,C.&Street.Louis Railway Company, Canada Southern Railway Company, and numerous railway, banking and other corporations Regent U. State of New York, 1877-1904.
Declined elections as United States senator, 1885. Declined appointment as Secretary of State in cabinet of President Benjamin Harrison. Received 99 votes for presidential nomination, Republican National Convention, 1888.
Delegate-at-large Republican National conversations, 1888, 92, 96, 1900, 04, and to all succeeding conversations, including 1924 (placed Benjamin Harrison in nomination for the Presidency, 1888, and Governor Morton, 1896).
United States senator, 1899-1905, 1905-1911. Orator at unveiling of Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor.
At centennial celebration of inauguration of George Washington. At opening of Chicago Exposition, 1893.
Home: New York, New New York
Member of New York Assembly, 1861-1862.
Married Elise Hegeman, November 9, 1871 (died 1893).
