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Church, Sanford Elias

lawyer, jurist, legislator, was born April 18, 1815, in Milford, N. Y. In 1842 he was a member of the state assembly from Orleans county, and from that time he was active in the support of the democratic party.

He was district attorney for his county in 1846-47, lieutenant-governor in 1851-55, comptroller of the state, 1858-59, and a member of the state constitutional convention of 1867, serving as chairman of the committee on finance. He died May 14, 1880, in Albion, N. Y.