Beardsley, Levi
lawyer, state senator, jurist, was born Nov. 13, 1785, in Hoosic, N. Y. In 1825 he was elected to the state assembly that passed the first railroad charter in the United States. He was elected to the state senate in 1829; reelected in 1834; and was president of the senate in 1838, and for many years judge of the court of errors of New York. sides his legal opinions, he published an autobiographical volume entitled Reminiscences. He died March 19, 1857, in New York.
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