George Cassedy

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title: "George Cassedy" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1783-births", "1842-deaths", "politicians-from-hackensack,-new-jersey", "democratic-republican-party-united-states-representatives-from-new-jersey", "jacksonian-united-states-representatives-from-new-jersey", "lawyers-from-bergen-county,-new-jersey", "burials-at-first-reformed-dutch-church,-hackensack", "united-states-representatives-who-owned-slaves", "19th-century-american-lawyers", "19th-century-united-states-representatives"] description: "American politician" topic_path: "law" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cassedy" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American politician ::

George Cassedy (September 16, 1783 – December 31, 1842) was a U.S. Representative from New Jersey.

Born in Hackensack, New Jersey, 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 Democratic-Republican 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.

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1. (2022-01-19). "Congress slaveowners". The Washington Post.
2. [http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=C000234 George Cassedy], [[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress]]. Accessed August 22, 2007.

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