Lyman Tremain

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Lyman Tremain

Lyman Tremain (June 14, 1819 Durham, Greene County, New York - November 30, 1878 New York City) was a jurist and politician from New York.

He was admitted to the bar in 1840 and practiced in Durham, where he was elected to his first political office as town supervisor in 1842. He was appointed District Attorney of Greene County in 1844. He was elected Surrogate in 1846, but lost reelection in 1851.

He moved to Albany, New York in 1853 and entered into partnership with former Congressman Rufus Wheeler Peckham in 1855. Elected as a Democrat, he was New York State Attorney General from 1858 to 1859.

He ran unsuccessfully as the Republican candidate for Lieutenant Governor of New York in 1862. He served as a member of the New York State Assembly from 1866 to 1868, and was Speaker in 1866. He was a delegate to the 1868 Republican National Convention.

In 1872, Tremain was elected as a Republican to the Forty-third United States Congress, defeating the incumbent Samuel Sullivan Cox. He served from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875, and then did not seek reelection. In 1873, Tremain also served with his partner's oldest son, Wheeler Hazard Peckham, as special counsel to the State in the prosecution of Boss Tweed. After leaving Congress, Tremain returned to private legal practice in Albany and then died in New York City while visiting. He was buried in Albany Rural Cemetery in Menands, New York.

Tremain's son Lyman (June 1843 - February 6, 1865) was a lieutenant colonel of the 10th New York Cavalry during the Civil War, who was killed at the Battle of Hatcher's Run.

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• Lyman Tremain at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• [1] The Political Graveyard
• [2] List of New York Attorneys General, at Office of the NYSAG
• Trial of William M. Tweed from Celebrated Trials by Henry Lauren Clinton, 1897.