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William Ellery Sedgwick

Lawyer

Centurion, 1854–1869

Born 27 March 1825 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Died 16 April 1873 in New York (Manhattan), New York

Buried Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Massachusetts

Proposed by Francis F. Marbury

Elected 4 February 1854 at age twenty-eight

Archivist’s Note: He ostensibly resigned sometime between 1855 and 1857 and was reinstated in June 1866 with a new set of proposers, C. A. Bristed and Giovanni Albinola. Father of Robert Sedgwick; cousin of Henry D. Sedgwick; second cousin of John Sedgwick.