David Wager

David Wager
Member of the New York Senate
from the 5th district
In office
1836–1840
Preceded by John G. Stower
Succeeded by Henry A. Foster

David Wager (March 17, 1804 – July 26, 1870) was an American politician from New York.

Life

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Oneida Co.) in 1833 and 1835.

He was a member of the New York State Senate (5th D.) from 1836 to 1840, sitting in the 59th, 60th, 61st, 62nd and 63rd New York State Legislatures.

In 1840, he married Mary Eliza Williams (c. 1811–1904), daughter of Judge Nathan Williams (1773–1835). Their daughter Mary Wager married in 1863 State Senator Alexander T. Goodwin (1837–1899).

David Wager and his wife were buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica.

Gen. Henry Halleck (1815–1872) and Bishop Henry Benjamin Whipple (1822–1901) were his nephews.

Sources

  • The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 131f, 147, 214, 217 and 313; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
  • Death notice of his widow, in NYT on January 4, 1904
  • Marriage notice in American Masonic Register and Literary Companion (issue of January 11, 1840; pg. 151)
  • Genealogy of the Whipple-Wright Wager Ward-Pell Mclean-Burnet Families together with records of Allied Families by Chyarles H. Whipple 1917 p. 56
New York State Senate
Preceded by
John G. Stower		 New York State Senate
Fifth District (Class 2)
1836–1840		 Succeeded by
Henry A. Foster
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