MARVIN, RICHARD PRATT, a Representative from New York;
born in Fairfield, Herkimer County, N.Y., December 23, 1803;
moved with his parents to Dryden, N.Y., in 1809;
attended the public schools;
studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1829 and commenced practice in Jamestown, Chautauqua County, N.Y.;
member of the State assembly in 1836 and 1837;
elected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1837-March 3, 1841);
chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department (Twenty-sixth Congress);
was not a candidate for renomination in 1840;
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1846;
judge of the eighth judicial district 1847-1871;
resumed the practice of law in Jamestown, N.Y., and died there January 11, 1892;
interment in Lakeview Cemetery.
