Communication From the Governor, Relative to the Boundary Line Between His State and the State of New-Jersey, to the Legislature: In Assembly, March 11, 1831 (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from Communication From the Governor, Relative to the Boundary Line Between His State and the State of New-Jersey, to the Legislature: In Assembly, March 11, 1831
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Enos Thompson Throop was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat.
Background
Throop was the eldest child of George Bliss Throop and Abiah (Thompson). His father, son of John and Mary (Throop) Bliss, had been adopted by a maternal uncle, the Rev. George Throop of Johnstown, N. Y. ; there was a tradition that their ancestor, William Throope, who settled in Barnstable, Massachussets, before 1666, was a son of Col. Adrian Schoope or Scrope, one of the regicides (Fitch, post).
After the Revolution, George Bliss Throop married the daughter of Enos Thompson, who had moved from New Haven to develop a tract of wild land in Dutchess County, N. Y. The young couple purchased land at the sale of confiscated Loyalist estates, and established a home in Johnstown, and here Enos Thompson Throop was born on August 21, 1784.
Education
The death of his father in 1794 seriously interfered with the boy's schooling, but four years later he obtained permission to enter the law office of George Metcalf, a friend of his mother and at that time district attorney for Montgomery, Albany, Saratoga, and Schoharie counties. Metcalf arranged for Throop to study law, and personally instructed him in the classics.
Career
He was admitted to the bar in January 1806. The ensuing March he began to practise at Poplar Ridge, N. Y. , but soon removed to Auburn, where he became a partner of Judge Joseph Richardson. This partnership continued until the junior partner, in 1811, was appointed county clerk.
In 1814 was elected to Congress. In 1816 he was defeated for reelection because of his support of the act to change the pay of members of Congress from six dollars per day to eighteen hundred dollars per annum. He thereupon resigned, and returned to his law practice.
In 1823 he was appointed circuit judge--a position which he held until 1828. In that year his friend of long standing, Martin Van Buren, who was seeking the governorship, persuaded him to become candidate for lieutenant governor. Both men were elected, and consequently, when in March 1829 Van Buren was appointed secretary of state by President Jackson, Throop became acting governor.
In 1830 he was elected to the governorship, but in 1832 he refused to be a candidate for reëlection. He appears to have made this decision primarily because of protests which his opposition to the construction of the Chenango Canal aroused in certain localities. It was through his efforts as governor that the first state insane asylum was founded in New York.
In 1833 President Jackson appointed him naval officer at the port of New York, and in 1838 President Van Buren appointed him chargé d'affaires to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In this capacity he served until 1841, devoting his chief efforts to obtaining a better market for American products, particularly tobacco.
He returned to the United States in 1843, and until 1846 resided at "Willowbrook, " his home near Auburn. He later acquired a large estate in Michigan, where he engaged successfully in farming, but eventually sold this property and spent his last years in New York City and at "Willowbrook. "
He died on his estate of Willowbrook, near Auburn, on 1 November 1874, aged 90. He was buried in the churchyard of St. Peter's Episcopal Church (now Sts. Peter and St. John Church) in Auburn.
Achievements
Enos Thompson Throop is remembered the tenth Governor of New York from 1829 to 1832.
There is a memorial to him at the Cathedral of All Saints (Albany, New York) that states in Latin, integer vitae scelerisque purus, which means "upright of life and free from wickedness. "
The Town of Throop, New York in Cayuga County is named after him.
Throop Avenue in Brooklyn (Kings County) and Throop Avenue in the Bronx are named after him.
Throop became very active in politics. A member of the Republican party of that day, he supported the administration's war policy.
In 1828, he joined his friend Martin Van Buren's ticket for the gubernatorial election as the Democratic-Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor, a step that rendered it necessary for him to resign his judicial office. It was expected that Andrew Jackson would be elected President at the same election, in which event Van Buren would be made Secretary of State and would, if his appointment were confirmed, have to resign the office of Governor and the leadership of the party, and with Throop as his lieutenant would keep both offices in the hands of a friend. These expectations were fulfilled, and Throop succeeded to the office of Governor on 12 March 1829. He was re-elected governor in 1830, defeating again Francis Granger who had been the contender for the lieutenant-governorship at the previous election. At this time the construction of the Chenango Canal became one of the chief questions of state policy. He opposed the plan, raising such a vehement opposition to him in the localities through which the proposed canal would pass, that in 1832 he declined to seek a third term.
Connections
He was married, July 14, 1814, to Evelina Vredenburgh, daughter of Col. William J. Vredenburgh of Skaneateles, N. Y. ; they had three children, all of whom died in infancy.
