Greene Carrier Bronson

Greene Carrier Brownson1,2

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Birth: 17 Dec 1789 Simsbury, Hartford Co., Conn3

Death: 5 Sep 1863 Saratoga, NY4,1

Father: Oliver Brownson (1746-1815)

Mother: Sarah Merrels (Merrill) (1754-1825)

Misc. Notes

Attorney general NYS appointed Feb. 27, 1829

Residence Utica , Party Democrat The next Attorney was appointed in Jan. of 1836

http://www.oag.state.ny.us/previous_aglist.html

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Bronson, Greene C. New York state attorney general, 1829-36; judge of New York

Court of Appeals, 1847-51; resigned 1851; chief judge of New York Court of Appeals,

1850-51. Burial location unknown.

http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/bronson.html

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letter from Gerrett Smith to Green C.

http://www.twsu.edu/library/specialcollections/83-1-b.html

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Greene C. Bronson

Born in Oneida County, New York in 1789, Green C. Bronson was educated as a lawyer and

practiced for many years in Utica, New York. In 1819 he was elected Surrogate of Oneida County.

He was elected to the New York Assembly in 1822 and then appointed Attorney General in 1829, an

office he held for seven years. On January 6, 1836 he was appointed a Puisne Judge and on March 5, 1845, he became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

On June 7, 1847 he was elected a Judge of the Court of Appeals, and was designated for a four-year term. On January 1, 1850, he succeeded Freeborn G. Jewett as Chief Judge.

In Shindler v Houston (1 NY 261), he joined his colleagues in reversing his own Supreme Court

judgment. The decisions in Villas v Jones (1 NY 274) on usury, and Shorter v People (2 NY 193) on

self-defense, are excellent examples of his judicial expertise. W. F. Coggswell, a Rochester, New

York attorney, wrote of him:

Judge Bronson was by nature an intense conservative. He had been a member for thirteen years of a

court of solely appellate Common-Law jurisdiction. He was, by the very proprieties of his office,

precluded from mingling much with men or affairs. He was thoroughly grounded in the common law,

without much adaptedness for or acquaintance with equity jurisprudence. He was a great judge in a

comparatively limited sphere.

He retired from the Bench in 1851, and settled in New York City where he practiced law. In 1853, he

was appointed Collector of the Port, and in 1860 he was appointed Counsel to New York City, a

position he held until 1862. His politics resembled common law rather than equity -- he was a

"hard-shell" Democrat. He died on September 3, 1863 in Saratoga, New York.

http://www.courts.state.ny.us/oldmen.htm

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Spouses

1: Lucretia Kilbourn

Marriage: 3 Feb 1818 perhaps at Utica, Oneida Co. NY1

Children: Henry (Harry) Greene (1819-1870)

Sarah E. (1821-1821)

Oliver (1826-1860)

Sarah L. (Twin) (1832-1868)

UNNAMED (Twin) (1832-1832)

Francis E. (~1822-1828)

Sources

1. Col Herber Bronson Enderton, Bronson (Brownson, Brunson) Families: Come descendants of John, Richard and Mary .., (NYC Public Library), 1969.

2. Bronson, Richard F. 1416 N. McDonald road #9, Spokane, WA 99216-3417, phone 509-928-2836 RVBronson@aol.com (1998 address) as peer source 8 from D. Burdick. Information on Greene C. children.

3. LDS.

4. Brownson family., The; Florence Augusta Brownson Hays 5 pgs typed undated

Last Modified: 3 Sep 2001

Created: 3 Sep 2001