Background
Porter, Peter Buell was born on August 14, 1773 in Salisbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joshua and Abigail (Buell) Porter.
Porter, Peter Buell was born on August 14, 1773 in Salisbury, Connecticut, United States. Son of Joshua and Abigail (Buell) Porter.
Graduated from Yale, 1791. Attended Litchfield (Connecticut) Law School.
Admitted to bar; began practice law, Canandaigua, New York, 1795. Clerk Ontario County (New York), 1797-1804. Member of New York State Legislature, 1801-1802.
Member firm Porter, Barton & Company (which acquired monopoly of transportation business on portage between Lewiston and Schlosser).
Member United States House of Representatives from New York, 11th-12th, 14th congresses, 1809-1813, 1815-January 23, 1816, leader “War Hawks”. Member of New York Canal Commission, 1810.
Quartermaster general New York Militia, 1812. Authorized by War Department to raise, command brigade of volunteers militia, 1813, instructed to incorporate them with “corps” from Six Nations Indians, commanded both, 1813.
14; commissioned major general New York Militia, 1814.
Voted gold medal by Congress, 1814. Secretary state New York, 1815, 16, United States commissioner to determine international boundary from Saint Lawrence to Lake of Woods, 1816-1822. Regent U. State New York, 1824-1830.
United States secretary of war, 1828-1829.
Whig presidential elector, 1840.
Member of New York State Legislature, 1801-1802. Member firm Porter, Barton & Company (which acquired monopoly of transportation business on portage between Lewiston and Schlosser). Member United States House of Representatives from New York, 11th-12th, 14th congresses, 1809-1813, 1815-January 23, 1816, leader “War Hawks”.
Member of New York Canal Commission, 1810.
Married Letitia Breckenridge, 1818.