James Birdsall
James Birdsall was an American politician and a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. Representative] from New York.
Biography
Born in 1783 in New York State, Birdsall studied law and was Admission to [the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar] in 1806. He married Rizpah Steere, and they had two sons and a daughter.Career
Birdsall was the first lawyer to settle in Norwich, New York and became surrogate of Chenango County, New York in 1811.Elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 14th [United States Congress|Fourteenth] Congress, Birdsall was United States Representative for the fifteenth district of New York from March 4, 1815, to March 3, 1817.
A member of the New York State Assembly in New York State Legislature|1827], Birdsall was also one of the incorporators of the Bank of Chenango. He moved to Fenton, Michigan, in 1839 and later to Flint, Michigan.