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Robert Troup

Robert Troup

Born 1757 in Elizabethtown, NJ

Died 1832 in New York, NY

FJC ID: 2417

Robert Troup (1757 – January 14, 1832) was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of New York. He participated in the Battles of Saratoga and was present at the surrender of British General John Burgoyne.

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Gender
Male
Race
White

Prior employment

  1. Agent for Sir William Pulteney's estates in western New York
    1801–1832
  2. Private practice, New York City
    1784–1796, 1798–1804
  3. U.S. District Court, District of New York
    Clerk of court · 1789–1796
  4. New York
    New York
    State assemblyman · 1786
  5. Private practice, Albany, New York
    1782–1783
  6. Continental Army lieutenant colonel
    1776–1780
  7. Board of Treasury
    Secretary · 1779–1780
  8. Board of War
    Secretary · 1778

Appointments

  1. U.S. District Court for the District of New York
    1796–1798 · Appointed by George Washington
    Term ended: Resignation
  2. District Court, D. New York
    District Court, D. New York
    1796–1798
    Term ended: resign

Education

  1. Read law
  2. King's College (now Columbia University)
    1774