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John Woodworth

WOODWORTH, John, jurist, born in Schodack, New York, 12 November, 1768; died in Albany, New York, 1 June, 1858. He studied law with John Lansing in Albany, was admitted to the bar in 1791, and began practice in Troy, New York, but he returned to Albany in 1806, and resided there until his death, he was surrogate of Rensselaer county in 1793-1804, a member of the assembly in 1803, and of the state senate in 1804-'7, attorney-general of New York in 1804-'8, and a judge of the state supreme court in 1819-'28. He published " Reminiscences of Troy from its Settlement in 1790 till 1807" (Albany, 1855), and with William P. Van Ness revised the laws of New York (2 vols., 1813).

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