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Theodore was born on January 27, 1811 at Albany, New York, United States, the son of Theodore Sedgwick, the second of that name, and of Susan Anne Livingston (Ridley) Sedgwick. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was his aunt.
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Theodore was born on January 27, 1811 at Albany, New York, United States, the son of Theodore Sedgwick, the second of that name, and of Susan Anne Livingston (Ridley) Sedgwick. Catharine Maria Sedgwick was his aunt.
Prepared for college in the public schools of New York City and at Stockbridge, Massachussets, the family seat, he graduated at Columbia in 1829. He studied law.
Theodore was admitted to the bar in 1833, and in the same year was appointed attache at the United States legation in Paris under Edward Livingston. Here he enjoyed a number of stimulating personal contacts, notably with De Tocqueville, the historian, who became his friend and correspondent.
Returning to New York in 1834, Sedgwick began a law practice which in the next sixteen years grew to be very extensive. Ill health, however, made it impossible for him to continue in his profession after 1850, and during 1851-52 he traveled in Italy, Switzerland, France, and England.
He contributed largely to Harper's Monthly and Harper's Weekly, and under the pseudonym Veto, to the New York Evening Post, then edited by William Cullen Bryant. In the year he was admitted to the bar he published a biography of his great-grandfather, A Memoir of the Life of William Livingston (1833).
In 1840 he edited A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, in two volumes. In 1857 he published the considerable volume, A Treatise on the Rules Which Govern the Interpretation and Application of Statutory and Constitutional Law, of which a second edition was issued in 1874, with additional notes by J. N. Pomeroy.
Upon his return to New York he became president of the newly incorporated Association for the Exhibition of the Industry of all Nations ("Crystal Palace Association"). After a year, however, the delicate state of his health forced him into retirement, first in New York and then at Stockbridge, where he partially recuperated.
In 1857 President Buchanan offered him the post of minister to the Netherlands and later that of assistant secretary of state, both of which offices he declined. In 1858 he was persuaded to accept the position of United States district attorney of the southern district of New York, in which capacity he served until his death in December 1859, at Stockbridge.
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In politics Theodore was, like his father, an advocate of Jeffersonian principles, but some later democratic developments, such as the popular election of judges, filled him with disgust, and he labored energetically to have the system altered.
Sedgwick was a man of methodical habits, preserving and carefully labeling all his private correspondence and official documents.
Theodore Sedgwick married, September 28, 1835, Sarah Morgan Ashburner, of a Stockbridge family, and was the father of seven children, three of whom died in infancy. His son Arthur George Sedgwick followed his father's profession and a daughter, Susan, married Charles Eliot Norton.