Badger, Luther
lawyer, congressman, was born April 10, 1785, in Partridgefield, Mass. In 1824 he was elected a representative to the nineteenth congress; had been engaged in military services in his state, and in 1819 was appointed judge advocate for the twentyseventh brigade of infantry of New York state, which office he held for eight years.
In 1832 resumed the practice of law, and in 1840 was appointed examiner in chancery and commissioner of United States loans, which office he held for three years. From 1846 to 1849 was United States district attorney for New York.