TRACY, Phineas Lyman, congressman, born in Norwich, Connecticut, 25 December, 1786 ; died in Batavia, New York, 23 December, 1876. His father, Dr. Philemon Tracy, was a physician of Norwich. Phineas was graduated at Yale in 1806, admitted to the bar of Utica, New York, in 1811, and in 1813 settled in Batavia, New York He was chosen to congress in 1826 by the anti-Masonic party to fill a vacancy, and served by reelection till 1833, when he declined a renomination. He was a presidential elector in 1840, became first judge of Genesee county in 1841, and held office till 1846, when he retired from professional life. --His brother, Albert Haller, jurist, born in Norwich, Connecticut, 17 June, 1793; died in Buffalo, New York, 12 September, 1859, began the study of medicine with his father, but soon abandoned it for the law, was admitted to the bar in 1815, and settled in Buffalo. He rose to a high place in the bar of western New York. At the age of twenty-four Mr. Tracy was elected a representative to the 16th congress, but he reached his twenty-fifth birthday anniversary before the assembling of congress on 6 December, 1819, and was thereby not excluded by the constitutional limit as to age. He was returned to the 17th and 18th congresses, and gained a reputation during his term of six years' service. In 1830 Mr. Tracy was chosen state senator, serving eight years. That body was then the court of errors. Exercising the functions of a court of last resort, and as a member of this court, Mr. Tracy achieved his greatest distinction. He was one of the ablest lawyers of the senate, and his opinions and decisions have been standard authority upon questions that were litigated then. Mr. Tracy was a candidate for United States senator in the famous election of 1839. After this contest he retired from public life.