Robert Lansing (state senator)
Robert Lansing (February 2, 1799 Albany, New York – October 3, 1878) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Judge Sanders G. Lansing (1766–1850) and Catherine (Ten Eyck) Lansing (1769–1850). He attended Union College but did not graduate. In 1817, he removed to Watertown, studied law there with Egbert Ten Eyck (1779–1844), and was admitted to the bar in 1820. On December 22, 1831, he married Maria Hubbard, and they had several children, among them John Lansing (1832–1907), the father of U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing (1864–1928).
He was a member of the New York State Senate (4th D.) from 1832 to 1835, sitting in the 55th, 56th, 57th and 58th New York State Legislatures.
On February 2, 1841, he married Cornelia Hubbard, a sister of his first wife. He was Supervisor of the Town of Watertown in 1852, and again a member of the State Senate (21st D.) in 1854 and 1855.
He was buried at the Brookside Cemetery in Watertown.
Chancellor John Lansing, Jr. and State Treasurer Abraham G. Lansing were his uncles. Congressman Gerrit Y. Lansing was his first cousin.
Sources
- The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 129f, 137, 142, 202f and 273; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
- Lansing genealogy at RootsWeb