Daniel Cruger, Jr. (1780-1843)

Birthplace:

Sunbury, Pa. no image found

Occupation:

Printer, lawyer
Congressional Service: House 1817-19 (R-New York)

Newspapers:

Union/Owego American Constellation, 1800-1802
Owego Democrat, ca. 1802-1804 (not found)
Bath Steuben Patriot, ca. 1816 (as backer)

Federal appointments:

District Attorney, 7th N.Y. district, 1815-18
May have been postmaster at Bath in the 1820s, and removed by Andrew Jackson in 1829

Other offices:

Member, New York state assembly, 1814-16, 1826; speaker, 1816
District Attorney, Steuben County, 1821

Notes

Apprentice, 1794-1800, with Charles & George Webster, printers & newspaper publishers in Albany, N.Y.
Admitted to bar in 1805.
Regarded as a member of the Clintonian faction in N.Y. politics by 1820s. 

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