Greene C. Bronson

Greene Carrier Bronson (November 17, 1789 Simsbury, Hartford County, Connecticut – September 3, 1863 Saratoga, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Oliver Bronson (1746-1815, a music teacher and publisher) and Sarah Merrill Bronson (1754-1825). About 1802, the family removed from Simsbury to Cazenovia which was then in Oneida County, New York.

He was Surrogate of Oneida County from 1819 to 1821. He was a member from Oneida and Oswego Counties of the New York State Assembly in 1822.

He was New York State Attorney General from 1829 to 1836. Bronson was elected by the New York State Legislature when his predecessor, Samuel A. Talcott, resigned due to "irregular habits."

He was an associate justice of the New York State Supreme Court from 1836 to 1845, and Chief Justice from 1845 to 1847. He was one of the first four judges elected to the New York Court of Appeals in 1847, and was Chief Judge from 1850 to 1851 when he resigned.

In 1853, he was appointed Collector of the Port of New York. In 1854, on the Barnburner ticket, he was one of five candidates for Governor of New York, but was defeated by Myron H. Clark, coming in last with only 7% of the votes. From 1860 to 1862, he was Corporation Counsel of the City of New York.

He was buried at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.

Sources

• [1] List of New York Attorneys General
• [2] Political Graveyard (giving wrong death date)
• [3] Death notice, in NYT on September 4, 1863
• [4] NY Court of Appeal history
• [5] Portrait and short bio, at NY Court history
• [6] His funeral, in NYT on September 8, 1863
• Google Book Genealogical History of the Early Settlers of West Simsbury by Abiel Brown (page 12, Case, Tiffany & Co., Hartford CT, 1856)
• [7] Bronson genealogy, at rootsweb
• [8] List of NY State Attorneys General, at Office of the Att. Gal. of NY
• Google Book The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 37, 261, 346, 347 and 415; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

External links

• Works by or about Greene C. Bronson in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Legal offices
Preceded by Samuel A. Talcott	New York State Attorney General 1829 – 1836	Succeeded by Samuel Beardsley
Preceded by Freeborn G. Jewett	Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals 1850 – 1851	Succeeded by Charles H. Ruggles
Preceded by Hugh Maxwell	Collector of the Port of New York 1853	Succeeded by Heman J. Redfield