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Bronson, Greene Carrier

lawyer, jurist, was born in 1789, in Oneida, N. Y. In 1819 he was chosen surrogate of Oneida county; in 1822 was a member of the assembly, and in 1829 elected attorneygeneral, which office he held up to 1836, at which time he became one of the puisne judges of the supreme court of judicature.

He was next appointed chief justice of the supreme court in 1845, and two years subsequently one of the judges of the court of appeals, then just organized. He died Sept. 3, 1863, in Saratoga, N. Y.