Frederick A. Tallmadge
(1792-1869)
BIRTH
August 29, 1792
PLACE
Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
DEATH
September 17, 1869
PLACE
Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER
Benjamin Tallmadge
(1754-1835)
MOTHER
Mary Floyd Tallmadge
(1764-1805)
BROTHER
William Smith Tallmadge
(1785-1822)
SISTER
Maria Tallmadge Cushman
(1790-1878)
SISTER
Harriet Tallmadge Delafield
(1797-1856)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
RELIGION NOT DOCUMENTED
DENOMINATION NOT DOCUMENTED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Frederick Augustus Tallmadge (1792–1869) was a New York lawyer, Whig congressman and police superintendent. Son of Revolutionary officer Benjamin Tallmadge, he graduated from Yale and studied at Litchfield Law School. He served in the War of 1812, the New York Senate and Congress in 1847–1849. As recorder he held a city judicial post; he later led the Metropolitan Police from 1857 to 1862 and served as clerk of the state Court of Appeals before resuming legal practice.
EARLY LIFE
Frederick A. Tallmadge was born on Aug 29, 1792 in Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Frederick A. Tallmadge with work or public activity as a lawyer, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Frederick A. Tallmadge died on Sep 17, 1869 in Litchfield, Connecticut, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Frederick A. Tallmadge died on Sep 17, 1869. Frederick Augustus Tallmadge was a New York lawyer, Whig congressman and police superintendent. Son of Revolutionary officer Benjamin Tallmadge, he graduated from Yale and studied at Litchfield Law School. As recorder he held a city judicial post; he later led the Metropolitan Police from 1857 to 1862 and served as clerk of the state Court of Appeals before resuming legal practice. He was Clerk of the New York Court of Appeals from 1863 to 1865, elected in 1862 on the Democratic/Constitutional Union ticket. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
POPULAR BIOGRAPHIES
Frederick Augustus Tallmadge, the New York congressman, lawyer and police superintendent, son of Benjamin Tallmadge. Welch and Hall concern his father. Editorial selections prioritize biographical coverage; five standalone biographies were not established. Family and collective biographies, primary writings, references and related studies are labelled individually. Multi-volume works and series are counted as one selection.
1. Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774–2005 — United States Congress. [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
2. The New-York Civil List — Franklin B. Hough. [Biographical reference] Find on Amazon
3. Benjamin Tallmadge: Revolutionary Soldier and American Businessman — Charles Swain Hall. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
4. General Washington's Commando: Benjamin Tallmadge in the Revolutionary War — Richard F. Welch. [Related biography of his father] Find on Amazon
5. Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898 — Edwin G. Burrows; Mike Wallace. [Related local and political biographical history] Find on Amazon
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