New York State’s seventh Attorney General was John Anthony Woodworth, a native of Rensselaer County. Born November 12, 1768 in Schodack, he graduated from Yale in 1788, and studied law in the Albany office of John Lansing, Jr., who later became Chancellor of New York.
He was a member of the Woodworth political family and was married to Catharine Westerlo (1778–1846, sister of Rensselaer Westerlo, and half-sister of Stephen Van Rensselaer III). [Read more…] about Rensselaer County’s John Woodworth: New York’s 7th Attorney General
It was a cold wintry night in early January 1793 in Upstate New York when a trio of political operatives reined in their horses at the home of