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Marcy, William Learned

lawyer, jurist, United States senator, governor, was born in 1786 in Sturbridge, Mass. In 1816 he was appointed recorder of Troy, N. Y.; made comptroller in 1623, and removed to Albany. In 1829 he was appointed judge of the supreme court of the state; and was elected to the United States senate in 1831. He was elected governor of New York in 1832, and reelected in 1834 and 1836. He was secretary of war under President Polk from 1845 to 1849; and secretary of state under President Pierce from 1853 to 1857. He died July 4, 1857, in Balston Spa, N. Y.