Background
He was the son of Calvin Selden and Phebe (Ely) Selden.
He was the son of Calvin Selden and Phebe (Ely) Selden.
He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1857 to 1858. He moved to Rochester, New York, in 1825 to study law in the firm of Addison Gardiner and ’s brother Samuel L. He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Clarkson, New New York became the case reporter for the New York State Court of Appeals in 1851.
In 1858, Yale College conferred the degree of Doctor of Laws on him. He returned to Rochester in 1859.
He was a Delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention.
In November 1863, he was elected to succeed himself for an eight-year term, but resigned on January 2, 1865. In 1870, he was nominated by the Republican Party for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, but was defeated by Democrat Sanford East. Church. In 1872, was a delegate to the national convention of the Liberal Republican Party in Cincinnati.
Partisan bickering there led him to retire from politics.
He spent the latter portion of the year and the first half of 1873 involved in Anthony’s case, for which he never billed Anthony. retired from the practice of law in 1879. He was buried near Anthony at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.
, New York is named for him, as well as New Mexico"s Fort Seldon.
Republican Party, Democratic Party.
He defended Susan B. Anthony in her 1873 trial for unlawfully voting as a woman.
Originally a Democrat, he became an abolitionist and founding member of the New York Republican Party in 1856, and was elected Lieutenant Governor that November. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Company, 2nd Doctorate) in 1866.