Jacob Tyson

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title: "Jacob Tyson" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["1773-births", "1848-deaths", "new-york-(state)-state-senators", "politicians-from-staten-island", "town-supervisors-in-new-york-(state)", "new-york-state-court-judges", "democratic-republican-party-united-states-representatives-from-new-york-(state)", "19th-century-members-of-the-new-york-state-legislature", "19th-century-united-states-representatives"] description: "American politician" topic_path: "people/1770s" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Tyson" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary American politician ::

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Field	Value
name	Jacob Tyson
state1	New York
district1	2nd
term1	March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825
preceded1	Churchill C. Cambreleng
John J. Morgan
succeeded1	Joshua Sands
state_senate2	New York State
district2	1st
term_start2	January 1, 1828
term_end2	December 31, 1828
preceded2	Cadwallader D. Colden
succeeded2	Stephen Allen
birth_date
birth_place	Staten Island, Province of New York, British America
death_date
death_place	Staten Island, New York, U.S.
party	Crawford
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Jacob Tyson (October 8, 1773July 16, 1848) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

Tyson attended public school in his youth. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and practiced law. He was Supervisor of the Town of Castleton, Staten Island from 1811 to 1821. He was First Judge of the Richmond County Court from 1822 to 1840.

Tyson was elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825. He was a member of the New York State Senate in 1828.

He was buried at the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church Cemetery in Port Richmond, Staten Island.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 71, 127, 146 and 364; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)

state=New York | district=2 | before=Churchill C. Cambreleng John J. Morgan | after=Joshua Sands | years=1823–1825}}

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