Garret D. Wall
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Garret Dorset Wall (March 10, 1783 - November 22, 1850) was a military officer and politician from New Jersey. Born in Middletown, he completed preparatory studies, studied law, was licensed as an attorney in 1804 and as a counselor in 1807, and commenced practice in Burlington, New Jersey. He served in the War of 1812 and commanded a volunteer regiment from Trenton. He was clerk of the New Jersey Supreme Court from 1812 to 1817, and was quartermaster general of the state from 1815 to 1837. He was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1827 and was United States district attorney for New Jersey in 1829; Wall was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1829, but declined to serve; he was then elected as a Jacksonian (later, a Democrat) to the U.S. Senate and served from March 4, 1835, to March 3, 1841; he was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on the Militia (Twenty-fourth and Twenty-fifth Congresses) and a member of the Committees on the Judiciary (Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Congresses) and Military Affairs (Twenty-fifth Congress).
From 1848 until his death, Wall was a judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey from 1848 until his death in Burlington in 1850; interment was in the churchyard of St. Mary's Church.
Garret D. Wall was the father of James Walter Wall, also a U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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- This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
| Preceded by Theodore Frelinghuysen |
United States Senator (Class 2) from New Jersey 1835–1841 Served alongside: Samuel L. Southard |
Succeeded by Jacob W. Miller |
