Allen C. Beach

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Allen Carpenter Beach (October 9, 1825 Fairfield, Herkimer County, New York - October 17, 1918 Rochester, Monroe County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician.

[edit] Life

He was the son of Rev. Allen R. Beach (1797-1879) and Amy Brown Beach (1803-ca. 1890). He graduated from Union College in 1848, and was admitted to the bar in 1852. His first wife Abby A. Woodruff died in 1856. In 1862, he married Olivia H. Pickering, daughter of Augustus Pickering and Caroline White. They had one daughter, Amy.

As a Democrat, he was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1869 to 1872 and Secretary of State of New York from 1878 to 1879.

He was a delegate to the 1860 and 1876 Democratic National Conventions.

[edit] Sources

[1] Obit notice in NYT on October 19, 1918
[2] The Pickering-Beach Museum
[3] His father's obit notice, in NYT on May 5, 1879
[4] Political Graveyard
[5] Beach genealogy
[6] Beach genealogy, his entry

Preceded by Stewart L. Woodford	Lieutenant Governor of New York 1869 - 1872	Succeeded by John C. Robinson
Preceded by John Bigelow	Secretary of State of New York 1878 - 1879	Succeeded by Joseph Bradford Carr

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