Enos Thompson Throop (21 August 1784-1 November 1874) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 20) from 4 March 1815 to 4 June 1816 (interrupting Daniel Avery and Oliver C. Comstock's terms) and Governor of New York from 12 March 1829 to 31 December 1832 (succeeding Martin Van Buren and preceding William L. Marcy).
Biography[]
Enos Thompson Throop was born in Johnstown, New York in 1784, and he studied law alongside Martin Van Buren in Albany. In 1811, he became Cayuga County Clerk, and he went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1815 until 1816, when he resigned after being defeated for re-election. He served as Judge of the Seventh Circuit from 1823 to 1828, when he served as Van Buren's Lieutenant Governor in New York. When Van Buren became Vice President in 1829, Throop became Governor, but his opposition to the Chenango Canal led to his unpopularity and his decision to not run for re-election in 1832. From 1833 to 1838, he served as naval officer at the Port of New York, and he served as charge d'affaires to the Two Sicilies from 1838 to 1842. In 1847, he purchased farmland in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but he returned to New York ten years later and settled in Auburn. He died there in 1874 at the age of 90.