Isaac V. Vanderpoel was an American lawyer

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 and politician

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Life

Isaac Vanderpoel was the son of Benjamin Vanderpoel. He was educated at Kinderhook Academy. Afterwards, he studied law at the office of J. & A. Vanderpoel at Kinderhook

Kinderhook (town), New York

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, New York

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, and in the office of Price & Sears at New York City

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. He was admitted to the bar

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 in 1834, and commenced practice in Aurora, New York

Aurora, Erie County, New York

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. From 1837 to 1845, he was Brigade Inspector of the 47th Regiment of the New York State Militia.

As a Democrat, he was New York State Treasurer

New York State Treasurer

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 from 1858 to 1859 and was defeated for re-election by Republican Philip Dorsheimer

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In January 1866, he formed a partnership with Grover Cleveland

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, which was dissolved in 1869 when Vanderpoel was elected a police judge.

Sources

• http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA35 The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 35f; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
• http://infomotions.com/etexts/gutenberg/dirs/1/3/7/4/13741/13741.htm His law firm, in Grover Cleveland by Henry H. Metcalf in The Bay State Monthly (Vol. II, Nov. 1884, No. 2) (wrong middle initial "K." given)
• http://books.google.com.br/books?id=eYkDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA22 Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature in the State of New York in 1859 by Wm. D. Murphy (pages 22ff; C. Van Benthuysen, Albany NY, 1859)