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About Judge Henry Rogers Selden
Judge Henry Rogers Selden
Successfully defended Susan B. Anthony in her the United States v. Anthony voting rights case.
- Find A Grave Memorial ID # 7683012
- Henry Rogers Selden - Wiki
- Judge Henry Rogers Selden, Historical Society of the New York Courts
Henry Rogers Selden (October 14, 1805 Lyme, New London County, Connecticut – September 18, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician. He was Lt. Governor of New York from 1857-1858. He defended Susan B. Anthony in her 1873 trial for unlawfully voting as a woman.
Life
He was the son of Calvin Selden and Phebe (Ely) Selden. Grandson of Ezra Selden, Connecticut Legislature, and Elizabeth Rogers, his wife. Great-grandson of Col. Samuel Selden, Colonial Army, and Deborah Dudley, his wife. Ezra Selden and Calvin Selden assisted in establishing American Independence. Ezra Selden was a member of the Connecticut Legislature twenty years. Calvin Selden, his son, was a lieutenant in the Revolutionary Army.[2] He moved to Rochester, New York, in 1825 to study law in the firm of Addison Gardiner and Selden’s brother Samuel L. Selden. He was admitted to the bar in 1830 and commenced practice in Clarkson, New York. On September 25, 1834, Selden married Laura Anne Baldwin at Clarkson, and they had three sons and two daughters, among them George Baldwin Selden, who became the first person to be granted a patent for the automobile.
Selden became the case reporter for the New York State Court of Appeals in 1851. 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. In 1858, Yale College conferred the degree of LL.D. on him. He returned to Rochester in 1859. He was a Delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention.
In July 1862, Henry R. Selden was appointed a judge of the New York Court of Appeals to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his brother Samuel. In November 1863, he was elected to succeed himself for an eight-year term, but resigned on January 2, 1865. He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Monroe Co., 2nd D.) in 1866.
In 1870, he was nominated by the Republican Party for Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals, but was defeated by Democrat Sanford E. Church. In 1872, Selden 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. Selden retired from the practice of law in 1879.
He was buried near Anthony at the Mount Hope Cemetery, Rochester.
Selden, New York is named for him, as well as New Mexico's Fort Seldon.
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Henry Rogers Selden was born of Puritan stock at Lyme, Connecticut, October 14, 1805. He came to Rochesterville in 1825 and began the study of law in the office of Addison Gardiner and his brother, Samuel L. Selden. At the age of twenty-five he was admitted to the bar, began practice in the town of Clarkson and rapidly advanced to the front rank of American lawyers, where he long stood without a superior. He returned to this city in 1859. In 1851 he was appointed reporter of the Court of Appeals and held the office until 1854.
Henry R. Selden was one of the men who advanced the money with which Morse and Vail were able to push the telegraph to success. His brother, Samuel L. Selden, and Henry O'Riely were associated with him in that immortal enterprise. He was president of the "Atlantic, Lake and Mississippi Valley Telegraph Company," and a stockholder in the "New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company," which developed into the Western Union Telegraph company.
Judge Selden was one of the organizers of the Republican party, and in 1856 was its candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York with John A. King as candidate for Governor. Both were elected. He was in Europe on business during the campaign, but his reputation was so high throughout the State that his absence did not hazard the success of the ticket. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Republican National convention and supported William H. Seward for the presidency.
When Lincoln was nominated the nomination for Vice-President was offered to Judge Selden, but he declined to accept the honor. When his brother, Samuel L., retired from the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Appeals in 1862 Governor Morgan tendered the office to Henry R. Selden, who waived his claim to the higher position ill favor of Judge Denio and accepted the place of Associate Justice, which he held until 1863. He was afterwards elected for a full term, but resigned in 1865 on account of illness.
In 1865 Mr. Selden was elected Member of Assembly for Rochester; he also accepted the nomination of his party in 1870 for Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, hut was defeated. He was one of the callers of the Liberal Republican convention at Cincinnati in 1872, but was not satisfied with the result and never after engaged in politics. Judge Selden's failing health compelled him to retire from professional life in 1879, hut he maintained an active interest in public affairs.
His marriage took place September 25, 1834, to Laura Ann Baldwin, daughter of Dr. Abel Baldwin of Clarkson. His widow is still living. Of their twelve children the survivors are George B. Selden, Mrs. Theodore Bacon, Mrs. William D. Ellwanger and Arthur Rogers Selden. Judge Selden died at his residence in Rochester, September 18, 1885.
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Judge Henry Rogers Selden's Timeline
| 1805 |
October 14, 1805
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Lyme, New London County, Connecticut, United States
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| 1835 |
September 24, 1835
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Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, United States
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October 29, 1837
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Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, United States
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August 20, 1839
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Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, United States
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September 14, 1846
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Clarkson, Monroe County, New York, United States
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| 1864 |
October 12, 1864
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Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
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September 18, 1885
Age 79
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Rochester, Monroe County, New York, United States
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