Sanford, Nathan
lawyer, jurist, United States senator, was born Nov. 5, 1771, in Bridgehampton, L. I. He was United States commissioner of bankruptcy for New York in 1802; was United States district attorney for New York from 1803 to 1816; and was speaker of the He was afterward assembly in 1811. state senator; and was a United States senator from 1815 to 1821, and again from 1825 to 1831. He was chancellor of New York from 1823 to 1825. He died Oct. 17, 1838, in Flushing, N. Y. a