President John Adams Role Former American senator | Succeeded by John E. Howard Name Uriah Tracy | |
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Died July 19, 1807, Washington, D.C., United States Books Scipio's Reflections On Monroe's View Of The Conduct Of The Executive On The Foreign Affairs Of The United States. Connected With A Mission To The French Republic In The Years, 1794, '95, '96 Previous offices Senator (CT) 1796–1807, Representative 1793–1796 | ||
Preceded by Jonathan Trumbull, Jr. | ||
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Uriah Tracy (February 2, 1755 – July 19, 1807) was an eighteenth-century American lawyer and politician from Connecticut. He served in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.
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Tracy was born in Franklin, Connecticut. In his youth he received a liberal education. His name is listed as amongst those in a company from Roxbury responding to the Lexington Alarm at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War. He later served in the Roxbury Company as a clerk
Tracy subsequently graduated from Yale University where his contemporaries included Noah Webster in 1778. He was admitted to the bar in 1781 after which he practiced law in Litchfield for many years. He served in the state legislature in 1788–1793, and in the United States House of Representatives from April 8, 1793– October 13, 1796, having been chosen as a Federalist.
He resigned his seat when he was elected to the United States Senate in place of Jonathan Trumbull, who had resigned. Tracy served until the time of his death in Washington, D. C.. He has the distinction of being the first member of Congress interred in the Congressional Cemetery. His descendants include the mathematician Curtis Tracy McMullen and the author Jeanie Gould.
In 1803, he and several other New England politicians proposed secession of New England from the union due to growing influence of Jeffersonian democrats and the Louisiana Purchase which they felt would further diminish Northern influence.
His portrait, painted by Ralph Earl, is in the collection of the Litchfield Historical Society in Litchfield, Connecticut.