SCHENCK, Ferdinand Schureman, a Representative from New Jersey; born in Millstone, Somerset County, N.J., February 11, 1790; completed preparatory studies; studied medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of New York, graduating in 1814; commenced practice at Six-Mile Run (now Franklin Park), N.J.; member of the New Jersey general assembly, 1829-1831; elected as a Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-third and Twenty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1833-March 3, 1837); was not a candidate for renomination; trustee of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., 1841-1860; member of the New Jersey state constitutional convention in 1844; judge of the New Jersey state court of errors and appeals, 1845-1857; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the New Jersey state senate in 1856; continued the practice of medicine; died in Camden, N.J., May 16, 1860; interment in a private cemetery at Pleasant Plains (near Franklin Park), N.J.
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