Randall S. Street (1780
Catskill, then
Albany Co., now
Greene County, New York
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– November 21, 1841
Monticello
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,
Sullivan County, New York
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) was an American lawyer and politician from
New York
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.
Life
Street pursued classical studies. He studied law, and was
admitted to the bar
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and began practice in
Poughkeepsie
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. He was District Attorney for the Second District (comprising
Rockland,
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,
Ulster
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,
Dutchess and
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counties) from February 1810 to February 1811, and from March 1813 to February 1815. In the
War of 1812
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he served as
lieutenant colonel of militia.
Street was elected as a
Federalist
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to the
16th United States Congress
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, holding office from March 4, 1819, to March 3, 1821. In 1823, he removed to Monticello where he continued the practice of law until his death. He was interred in Poughkeepsie.
He was the father of poet, author and New York State Librarian
Alfred Billings Street, and grandfather of
Anna Morton, wife of Vice President
Levi P. Morton
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.
Sources
''The New York Civil List''(1858; pages 71, 367 and 448)
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1780 births
1841 deaths
County district attorneys in New York (state)
Politicians from Poughkeepsie, New York
People from Monticello, New York
American militia officers
Federalist Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state)
19th-century New York (state) politicians
19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives