Albert Gallup (January 30, 1796 – November 5, 1851) was a

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from

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, serving on term from 1837 to 1839.

Early life

Gallup was born in East

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to Nathaniel Gallup (1770–1834) and Lucy (

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Latham) Gallup (1773–1862). His ancestors fought in the colonial wars, including, Capt. John Gallup, who was killed in the Narraganset Swamp fight with the Indians, and another, William Latham, who was killed at the Battle of New London. As a child, Gallup received a limited schooling. He later studied law, was

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, and practiced in Albany.

Career

From 1831 to 1834, he served as

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of Albany County.

Congress

Gallup was elected as a

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to the

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serving from March 4, 1837, until March 3, 1839. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress in 1838. He was appointed the U.S. collector of

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for Albany in 1843.

Personal life

On April 26, 1818, he married Eunice Smith (1799–1872), daughter of Capt. Amos Denison Smith and Priscilla Mitchell. Together, they were the parents of: * Caroline Gallup Reed (1821–1914), who was a noted educator and who married Rev. Sylvanus Reed (1821–1870) * Albert Smith Gallup (1823–1906), who was a member of the

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from 1853 to 1854. * Priscilla Gallup (b. 1828), who married George H. Whitney, in 1852. * Lucy Gallup (b. 1832), who married Dr. Henry Delavan Paine (1816–1893), in 1858. * Edwin C. Gallup (b. 1835), who married Anna B. Calket, in 1870. * Eunice Ida Gallup (1840–1898), who married William W. Rhoades (1837–1893). * Francis William Gallup (1841–1842), who died young. Gallup died on November 5, 1851, in

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. He was interred in

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Descendants

He was the grandfather of Latham Gallup Reed (1855–1945), a prominent New York lawyer, and Anna Dewitt Reed (1858–1958), who married

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(1859–1932) in 1884. He was also grandfather of Isabel Whitney, a member of New York Society who married William H. Sage, of "Uplands" in

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