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Garret S. Cannon (March 1, 1818 – April 21, 1889) was a lawyer who served as United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey under two presidents.

Biography

Born in Somerset, New Jersey, Garret was born to a professor and a house wife. At 18 he graduated Rutgers in 1833, and soon began to practice law in Mount Holly. He would go on to be a part of the New Jersey State Assembly, and later serve as the United States Attorney for the district of New Jersey from 1853 to 1861. He would go out to live out the rest of his life in Bordentown, New Jersey until his death in 1889.

References

1. "Office History". www.justice.gov. 2015-03-18. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
2. ^ The New Jersey Law Journal, Volumes 8-9. New Jersey Historical Society.
3. "Inventory to the Rutgers University Biographical Files: Alumni (Classes of 1774-1922)". www2.scc.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-29.
4. Fitzgerald (1912). Manual of the Legislature of New Jersey.
5. "Appointments by the President". New York Daily Times. April 22, 1853.
6. Shaw, William (1884). History of Essex and Hudson Counties, New Jersey: Volume 2. Everts & Peck.
7. Proceedings of the New Jersey Historical Society: Volumes 1-2. New Jersey Historical Society. 1847.

• 1818 births
• 1889 deaths
• American people of English descent
• United States Attorneys for the District of New Jersey
• New Jersey lawyers
• Rutgers University alumni
• New Jersey Democrats
• People from Bordentown, New Jersey
• People from Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
• 19th-century American lawyers