Samuel Austin Talcott (December 31, 1789 Hartford, Connecticut – March 19, 1836 New York City) was an American lawyer and politician.

Samuel A. Talcott
New York Attorney General
In office
February 12, 1821 – January 27, 1829
Preceded byThomas Jackson Oakley
Succeeded byGreene C. Bronson
Personal details
BornDecember 31, 1789
Hartford, Connecticut
DiedMarch 19, 1836 (aged 46)
New York City
ChildrenJohn Ledyard Talcott (b. 1812) Thomas Grosvenor Talcott (b. 1819)
EducationWilliams College

Life

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He was the son of Samuel Talcott (1740-1798, grandson of Joseph Talcott, Colonial Governor of Connecticut) and Abigail Ledyard Talcott. On May 28, 1810, he married Rachel Skinner; their son was John Ledyard Talcott (b. 1812), a justice of the New York Supreme Court.

He graduated from Williams College in 1809,[1] and he practiced law at New Hartford, New York. There he married, in 1818, his second wife, Mary Eliza Stanley (1800-1848), and their son was Thomas Grosvenor Talcott (1819-1870).

He was a leading member of the Albany Regency and was New York State Attorney General from February 12, 1821 to January 27, 1829, when he was forced to resign "due to irregular habits", a then-used euphemism for what is now called a "drinking problem". Afterward, he practiced law in New York City.

He is mentioned briefly as a character in The Witch of Blackbird Pond, written by Elizabeth George Speare in 1958.

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References

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  1. ^ Perry, Arthur (1904). Williamstown and Williams College: A History. p. 370.
Legal offices
Preceded by New York State Attorney General
1821 – 1829
Succeeded by