Leonard Maison was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He practiced law at

Poughkeepsie, New York Poughkeepsie ( ) is a city within the Poughkeepsie (town), New York, Town of Poughkeepsie, New York (state), New York. It is the county seat of Dutchess County, New York, Dutchess County, with a 2020 census population of 31,577. Poughkeepsie i ...

. He married Helen Emott, and they had several children, among them Rev. Charles Augustus Maison (1824–1922); and Belinda Emott (Maison) Coffin (1821–1856) who was married to Owen T. Coffin. Maison was a member of the

New York State Senate The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature, while the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Established in 1777 by the Constitution of New York, its members are elected to two-year terms with no term l ...

(2nd D.) from 1834 to 1837, sitting in the 57th, 58th, 59th and 60th New York State Legislatures. He was a brigadier general of artillery in the New York State Militia.

Sources

''The New York Civil List''
compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 130f and 143; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
''The New York Annual Register''
(1832; pg. 320)
''Obituary Record of Yale Graduates''
("Charles Augustus Maison", pg. 307)

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