Clement Hall Sinnickson

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Clement Hall Sinnickson (September 16, 1834 - July 24, 1919), served in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1875 until March 3, 1879, where he represented New Jersey's 1st congressional district. He is the grandnephew of Thomas Sinnickson, who was also a former Representative from New Jersey.

Born in Salem, New Jersey, he attended private schools, and the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, before graduating from Union College, New York, in 1855. While at Union he became a member of Theta Delta Chi. After his collegiate career, he studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1858, commencing the practice of law in Salem. During the Civil War Sinnickson served as Captain in the Union Army. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth and Forty-fifth US Congresses. After his stint in Washington, he resumed the practice of law in Salem. Politically, he also served as a delegate to the 1880 Republican National Convention, and he was appointed judge of the Court of Common Pleas in 1896 and reappointed in 1901 and 1906.

Sinnickson was intered at St. John's Episcopal Cemetery, in Salem, New Jersey.

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• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Biography for Clement Hall Sinnickson from The Political Graveyard