Isaac Toucey

Isaac Toucey

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=Isaac Toucey



order=21st
title=United States Attorney General
term_start=June 21, 1848
term_end=March 4, 1849
predecessor=Nathan Clifford
successor=Reverdy Johnson
order2=23rd
title2=United States Secretary of the Navy
term_start2=March 7, 1857
term_end2=March 4, 1861
predecessor2=James C. Dobbin
successor2=Gideon Welles
birth_date=birth date|1792|11|15|mf=y
birth_place=Newtown, Connecticut, U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1869|7|30|1792|11|15
death_place=Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
party=Democratic
spouse=
profession=Lawyer, Politician

Isaac Toucey (November 15, 1792ndash July 30, 1869) was an American statesman who served as a U.S. Senator, Secretary of the Navy, Attorney General of the United States and Governor of Connecticut.

Born in Newtown, Connecticut, Toucey studied law and was admitted to the bar at Hartford, Connecticut, in 1818. He began practicing and in 1822 was named prosecuting attorney of Hartford County, Connecticut. He served in that position until 1835, when he was elected to the 24th and 25th Congresses (at-large and then representing the 1st District). He lost the election of 1838 and returned to his position as prosecuting attorney in 1842. He ran for Governor in 1845, and lost, but the Connecticut State Legislature appointed him to the position in 1846; he was defeated in an attempt at re-election.

In 1848, President of the United States James K. Polk appointed him the 20th Attorney General of the United States, a position he held until 1849. He returned to Connecticut and took a place in the Connecticut Senate in 1850, and then in the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1852.

He was elected to the U.S. Senate for the term commencing March 4, 1851, and served from May 12, 1852, to March 3, 1857, having that year declined to be a candidate for reelection. During that time, Toucey often served as the legislative point man for Franklin Pierce and his administration.

James Buchanan, who Toucey had served with in the Polk administration, appointed him U.S. Secretary of the Navy in his Cabinet in 1857 as a sop to the Pierce faction as well as to represent New England in the Cabinet. A moderate Northerner much in line with Buchanan's thought in the sectional controversies of the day, Toucey held that post until 1861 and the arrival of the Abraham Lincoln administration. Toucey was then replaced by one of his chief rivals in Connecticut, Gideon Welles. After 1861 he returned to the law, and died in Hartford in 1869.

USS "Toucey" (DD-282) was named for him.

He is buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.

References

External links

* [http://www.cslib.org/gov/touceyi.htm Connecticut State Library: Isaac Toucey, Governor of Connecticut from 1846 to 1847]


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