Robert Monell
Robert Monell (April 25, 1787 – November 29, 1860) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. From 1829 to 1831, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Jacksonian.
Life
[edit]Monell was born in Columbia County, New York on April 25, 1787.[1] Monell studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1809, and commenced practice at Binghamton, New York. In 1811, he removed to Greene.
Political career
[edit]He was a member from Chenango County of the New York State Assembly in 1814-15.
Congress
[edit]Monell was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 16th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821.
He was again a member of the State Assembly in 1825, 1826 and 1828; and was D.A. of Chenango County in 1827.
Monell was elected as a Jacksonian to the 21st United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1829, to February 21, 1831, when he resigned.
Later career and death
[edit]He was Judge of the Sixth Circuit Court from 1831 to 1846. Afterwards he resumed the practice of law;
He died in 1860 in Greene, New York, and was buried at the Hornby Cemetery.
External links
[edit]- United States Congress. "Robert Monell (id: M000853)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 189, 202f, 206, 292, 356 and 371; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)