Caleb Smith Woodhull (February 26, 1792 – July 16, 1866) was the 70th
Mayor of New York City from 1849 to 1851.
Biography
Smith Woodhull was born in
Miller Place, New York
Miller Place is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Brookhaven, Suffolk County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. Miller Place has been inhabited since the 17th century and is named for the Miller f ...
on February 26, 1792. He graduated from
Yale University
Yale University is a Private university, private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Sta ...
in 1811, studied law, and became an
attorney in 1817.
Woodhull interrupted his studies to serve with the New York Militia in the
War of 1812
The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States, United States of America and its Indigenous peoples of the Americas, indigenous allies against the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United Kingdom ...
. He remained active in the militia until resigning his commission in 1830.
A
Whig, Woodhull was elected in 1836 to New York City's Common Council, and he became a member of the Board of Aldermen in 1839. In 1843 he became President of the Board of Aldermen.
He was elected Mayor of New York in 1849 and served one term (the last one year term before mayoral terms were extended to two years, then, in 1905, to four years).
After leaving the mayor's office Woodhull retired to Miller Place, where he died on July 16, 1866.
[Ralph J. Caliendo]
New York City Mayors
Part 1, 2010, pages 279 to 283
References
External links
Caleb Smith Woodhull portrait and notes New-York Historical Society
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1792 births
1866 deaths
People from Miller Place, New York
People from Manhattan
Yale University alumni
People from New York (state) in the War of 1812
New York (state) lawyers
New York (state) Whigs
19th-century American politicians
Mayors of New York City
Woodhull family