Churchill C. Cambreleng

Historical marker designating the birth city of Cambreleng

Churchill Caldom Cambreleng (October 24, 1786 Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina – April 30, 1862 West Neck, Suffolk County, New York) was an American politician from New York.

Life

Cambreleng attended school in New Bern, North Carolina, and removed to New York City in 1802. He was associated with John Jacob Astor and became a wealthy merchant.

Cambreleng was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 17th, and was re-elected as a Crawford Democratic-Republican to the 18th, as a Jacksonian to the 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th, and as a Democrat to the 25th United States Congress, holding office from December 3, 1821, to March 4, 1839. He was Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs (23rd Congress) and Chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means (24th and 25th Congresses).

Upon its incorporation in 1831, he became the first President of the Saratoga and Schenectady Railroad.

President Martin Van Buren appointed him United States Minister to Russia in 1840. He was a delegate from Suffolk County to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1846.

He attended the 1848 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore as a Barnburner but withdrew with his faction, and participated in the nomination of Van Buren as the candidate of the Free Soil Party. Later he rejoined the Democrats and supported Franklin Pierce in 1852.

References

• Churchill C. Cambreleng at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• House Ways and Means Committee
• Churchill C. Cambreleng at Find a Grave
• Biography at NC Gen Web

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Henry Meigs, Peter H. Wendover	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 2nd congressional district 1821 - 1823 with John J. Morgan 1821-23	Succeeded by Jacob Tyson
Preceded by Jeremiah H. Pierson	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York's 3rd congressional district 1823 - 1839 with Peter Sharpe 1823-25, John J. Morgan 1823-25 and 1834-35, Jeromus Johnson 1825-29, Gulian C. Verplanck 1825-33, Campbell P. White 1829-35, Dudley Selden 1833-34, Cornelius Van Wyck Lawrence 1833-34, Charles G. Ferris 1834-35, Gideon Lee 1835-37, John McKeon 1835-37, Ely Moore 1835-39, Edward Curtis 1837-39, and Ogden Hoffman 1837-39	Succeeded by Moses H. Grinnell, Edward Curtis, James Monroe, Ogden Hoffman
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by George M. Dallas	United States Ambassador to Russia 1840 - 1841	Succeeded by Charles S. Todd

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Name	Cambreleng, Churchill Caldom
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Date of birth	October 24, 1786
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Date of death	April 30, 1862
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