George Cassedy (September 16, 1783 – December 31, 1842) was a

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, Cassedy attended the common schools, where he studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Hackensack, and became the postmaster of Hackensack from June 10, 1805, to January 1, 1806. He owned slaves. Cassedy was elected as a

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to the Seventeenth Congress, reelected as a Jacksonian Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as a Jacksonian to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827). He died in Hackensack, December 31, 1842, and was interred there in the First Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery.George Cassedy

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