Background
Tremain, Lyman was born on June 14, 1819 in Durham, New York, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Tremain, Lyman was born on June 14, 1819 in Durham, New York, United States.
Studied law.
He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced in Durham, where he was elected to his first political office as town supervisor in 1842. He was appointed District Attorney of Greene County in 1844. He was elected Surrogate in 1846, but lost reelection in 1851.
Elected as a Democrat, he was New York State Attorney General from 1858 to 1859.
He ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1862. In June 1864 he was a delegate to the Baltimore Convention of the National Union Party where he placed the name of Daniel South. Dickinson in contention for the vice presidential nomination on the ticket with President Lincoln.
He was a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention and placed Governor Fenton"s name in contention for Vice President on the ticket with General Grant. In 1872, Tremain was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third United States Congress, defeating the incumbent Samuel Sullivan Cox.
He served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875, and then did not seek reelection.
After leaving Congress, Tremain returned to private legal practice in Albany and then died in New York City while visiting. He was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New New York Tremain"s son Frederick Lyman (June 1843 – February 6, 1865) was a lieutenant colonel of the 10th New York Cavalry during the Civil War who was killed at the Battle of Hatcher"s Run.
Tremain was of an old Cornish American family.
Republican Party, Democratic Party.
Member of New York State Assembly, 1866-1868, speaker, 1867. Member United States House