The Biographical Dictionary of America/Baldwin, Simeon

BALDWIN, Simeon, jurist, was born at Norwich, Conn., Dec. 14, 1761. He was graduated from Yale college in 1781, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1786. He was elected in 1802 as a representative from Connecticut to the 8th Congress, and in 1806 he was made judge of the supreme court of that state. He was a member of the commission which located the Farmington canal in 1822, and in 1826 was elected mayor of New Haven. He died May 26, 1851.