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| Affiliation | Democratic |
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| Name | Teunis Garret Bergen |
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Brooklyn, New York , United States |
| Email | None |
| Website | None |
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October 06, 1806
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| Died | April 24, 1881
(74 years)
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| Contributor | Magical Horse |
| Last Modifed | RBH
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| Info | BERGEN, Teunis Garret, (second cousin of John Teunis Bergen), a Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., October 6, 1806; attended the common schools and Erasmus Hall Academy, Flatbush, N.Y.; engaged in agricultural pursuits and surveying; supervisor of New Utrecht, Kings County, N.Y., 1836-1859; member of the State constitutional conventions in 1846, 1867, and 1868; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions at Baltimore and Charleston in 1860; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1865-March 3, 1867); was not a candidate for renomination in 1866; resumed agricultural pursuits and surveying near New Utrecht; also engaged in literary and historical work; served as ensign, captain, adjutant, lieutenant colonel, and colonel of the Two Hundred and Forty-first Regiment, New York State Militia, known as Kings County Troop; died in Brooklyn, N.Y., April 24, 1881; interment in Greenwood Cemetery.
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