Townsend Scudder made a specialty of municipal law and has served four terms as counsel for Queens county. He attended preparatory schools in Europe, graduated from Columbia Law School, New York City, in 1888, was admitted to the bar in 1889. He was elected to the fifty-sixth congress from New York as a democrat (March 4, 1899-March 3, 1901) and was elected to the Fifty-eighth Congress (March 4, 1903-March 3, 1905). Townsend was appointed to the State Supreme Court by Gov. Alfred E. Smith in February 1927 and served until January 1, 1936,

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1865 - Northport, New York 1870 - New York, New York, New York 1900 - Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 1910 - Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York 1920 - Oyster Bay, Nassau, New York

1930 - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 1940 - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 1950 - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut 1960 - Greenwich, Fairfield, Connecticut