Rowland Day

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Rowland Day

|image =

|state = New York

|district = 24th

|term_start = March 4, 1833

|term_end = March 3, 1835

|predecessor = Ulysses F. Doubleday

|successor = Ulysses F. Doubleday

|term_start2 = March 4, 1823

|term_end2 = March 3, 1825

|predecessor2 = New district

|successor2 = Charles Kellogg

|office3 = New York State Assembly

|term_start3 = 1816

|term_end3 = 1817

|birth_date = {{Birth date|1779|03|06}}

|birth_place = Chester, Massachusetts, US

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1853|12|23|1779|03|06}}

|death_place = Moravia, New York, US

|party = Crawford Democratic-Republican
Jacksonian

}}

Rowland Day (March 6, 1779 Chester, Massachusetts – December 23, 1853 Moravia, New York) was an American merchant and politician from New York. From 1823 to 1825, he served one term in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Life

In 1805, Day removed to Skaneateles, and in 1810 to Sempronius. He engaged in mercantile pursuits, and was Supervisor of the Town of Sempronius for several years.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1816-17, and a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821.

= Congress =

Day was elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th, and as a Jacksonian to the 23rd United States Congress, holding office from March 4, 1823, to March 3, 1825, and from March 4, 1833, to March 3, 1835.

= Later career and death =

He was Postmaster of Sempronius. In 1833, the Western part of Sempronius (where Day lived) was separated as the Town of Moravia.

He was buried at the Indian Mound Cemetery in Moravia

References

[https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA71 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 57, 71f, 192 and 269; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
[https://books.google.com/books?id=OE4ZAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA46 Table of the Post Offices in the United States] (1831; page 46)

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