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5 unusual facts about Alfred Conkling


Alfred Conkling

Conkling was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th United States Congress, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 3, 1823.

Margaret Cockburn Conkling (also known as Mrs. Steele; born 27 January 1814; died 1890) became an accomplished author, with works such as The American Gentleman's Guide To Politeness and Fashion, Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington (Auburn, N. Y., 1851-1853), Isabel; or, Trials of the Heart and a translation of Florian's History of the Moors of Spain.

Eliza Conkling married Rev. Samuel Hanson Coxe, the son of abolitionist minister, author, and educator Samuel Hanson Cox.

Alfred Conkling Coxe, Jr.

Coxe was the son of the US Circuit Court of Appeals Justice (2nd Circuit) Alfred Conkling Coxe, Sr., great grandson of Alfred Conkling, who served as a U.S. Representative from upstate New York and a judge in the Northern District, and grand nephew of Roscoe Conkling, who was a Congressman and Senator from New York and boss of the state's Republican political machine.

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Alfred Conkling (1789-1874), a lawyer and United States Representative from New York



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