Gilbert Dean

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Gilbert Dean (August 14, 1819 - October 12, 1870) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Pleasant Valley, he attended the common schools and Amenia Seminary in Dutchess County. He was graduated from Yale College in 1841 and studied law, gaining admission to the bar and commencing practice in Poughkeepsie in 1844.

Dean was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses and served from March 4, 1851 to July 3, 1854, when he resigned. He was appointed justice of the supreme court of New York on June 26, 1854 to fill a vacancy, and served until December 31, 1855. He moved to New York City in 1856 and continued the practice of law; in 1870 he died in Poughkeepsie. Interment was in the Presbyterian Cemetery at Pleasant Valley; reinterment was in Portland Evergreen Cemetery, Brocton.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress