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Oakley, Thomas Jackson

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born in 1783, in Dutchess county, N. Y. In 1813 he was elected a representative in congress from New York, where he continued until 1815.

He was elected a member of the assembly; was appointed attorney-general of the state of New York in 1819; and in 1820 again served in the assembly. 1827 he was again elected to congress. In 1828, when the superior court of New York city was organized, he was appointed one of its judges; and on the reorganization of the court under the constitution of 1846, was elected the chief justice, and continued in that position until his death.

He died May 11, 1857, in New York city.