Background
A son of Congressman Alfred Conkling and brother of Representative and United States. Senator Roscoe Conkling, Frederick Conkling was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New New York
United States representative politician
A son of Congressman Alfred Conkling and brother of Representative and United States. Senator Roscoe Conkling, Frederick Conkling was born in Canajoharie, Montgomery County, New New York
He pursued classical studies and attended The Albany Academy.
He was also a postbellum banker, insurance company executive, and writer At the start of the Civil War, Conkling organized the 84th New York Infantry in June 1861 and became its colonel. He initially served throughout the Shenandoah Valley Campaign.
Conkling was elected as a Republican to the Thirty-seventh Congress, holding office from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863.
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1862 to the Thirty-eighth Congress and was later an unsuccessful Republican candidate for mayor of New York City in 1868. He was one of the organizers of the West Side Savings Bank of New York City and served as its president for many years.
Subsequently he became president of the Aetna Fire Insurance Company, of Hartford, Connecticut and served until its dissolution in 1880. He authored numerous pamphlets on political, commercial, and scientific subjects.
Conkling died in New York City in 1891.
Interment was in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.
Member of New York State Assembly, 1854, 59-60. Member United States House of Representatives (Republican) from New York, 37th Congress, 1861-1863. Member New York City of C., New York History Society, New York Geography Society.