Jacob Crocheron was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from New York

New York

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, United States

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 brother of Henry Crocheron

Henry Crocheron

Henry Crocheron was a U.S. Representative from New York, brother of Jacob Crocheron.Born on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, Crocheron attended the common schools.He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Northfield....

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Born on Staten Island, Richmond County, New York, Crocheron engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Sheriff of Richmond County in 1802, 1811, and again in 1821.

Crocheron was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first

21st United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1831).
He died in Richmond County, Staten Island, on December 27, 1849.
He was interred in St. Andrew's Churchyard, Staten Island, New York.