Background
He was the son of Ezra Ludlow and Rachel Seguine.
He was the son of Ezra Ludlow and Rachel Seguine.
Their sons were Nicoll Ludlow and General William Ludlow. He was a Democratic member from Suffolk County of the New York State Assembly, and was Speaker in 1853. In 1854, he ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York on the ticket with Horatio Seymour, but was defeated.
He was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention.
In 1889, he sold "Oakdale Farm", a 400-acre (16 km2) estate, to Frederick Gilbert Bourne. He joined the 73rd New York Volunteer Infantry as a 2nd lieutenant, and was soon attached to the staff of Major General John Adams Dix, and was promoted to lieutenant colonel and aide-de-camp to the general.
At the end of the Civil War, he was the agent for exchange of prisoners at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and was brevetted brigadier general and major general, United States Volunteers, on March 13, 1865 for "faithful and meritorious services during the war".