Garret D. Wall

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Garret Dorset Wall
Junior Senator from New Jersey
In office March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1841
Preceded by	Theodore Frelinghuysen
Succeeded by	Jacob W. Miller
Born	March 10, 1783 Middletown, New Jersey, USA
Died	November 22, 1850 Burlington, New Jersey, USA
Political party	Democratic-Republican, Democrat
Profession	Politician, Lawyer, Judge

Garret Dorset Wall (March 10, 1783 – November 22, 1850) was a military officer and politician from New Jersey. Born in Middletown Township, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was licensed as an attorney in 1804 and as a counselor in 1807, and commenced practice in Burlington, New Jersey. He served in the War of 1812 and commanded a volunteer regiment from Trenton. He was clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1812 to 1817, and was quartermaster general of the state from 1815 to 1837. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1827 and was United States district attorney for New Jersey in 1829; Wall was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1829, but declined to serve; he was then elected as a Jacksonian (later, a Democrat) to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1841; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on the Militia (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses) and a member of the Committees on the Judiciary (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses) and Military Affairs (Twenty-fifth Congress).

From 1848 until his death, Wall was a judge of the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey from 1848 until his death in Burlington in 1850. He was buried in Saint Mary's Episcopal Churchyard in Burlington.^[1]

Garret D. Wall was the father of James Walter Wall, also a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.

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• Garret D. Wall at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Garret Dorset Wall at The Political Graveyard
• Garret Dorset Wall at Find A Grave

Preceded by Theodore Frelinghuysen

United States Senator (Class 2) from New Jersey March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1841 Served alongside: Samuel L. Southard

Succeeded by Jacob W. Miller

v • d • e United States Senators from New Jersey Class 1: Elmer • Rutherfurd • Davenport • Schureman • Ogden • Condit • Lambert • Wilson • Southard • McIlvaine • Bateman • Dickerson • Southard • W. Dayton • R. Stockton • Thomson • Field • J. Wall • Wright • F. T. Frelinghuysen • J. Stockton • Randolph • Sewell • Blodgett • J. Smith • J. Kean • Martine • J. Frelinghuysen • Edwards • H. Kean • Moore • Milton • Barbour • Walsh • H. Smith • Williams • Brady • Lautenberg • Corzine • Menendez Class 2: Paterson • Dickinson • F. Frelinghuysen • Richard Stockton • J. Dayton • Kitchell • Condit • Dickerson • T. Frelinghuysen • G. Wall • Miller • Wright • Ten Eyck • J. Stockton • Catell • F. T. Frelinghuysen • McPherson • Sewell • Dryden • Briggs • Hughes • Baird • Edge • Baird, Jr. • Morrow • Barbour • Smathers • Hawkes • Hendrickson • Case • Bradley • Torricelli • Lautenberg