title: John W. Tamblin
text: # John W. Tamblin
  
  John W. Tamblin (died May 25, 1874) was an American lawyer, newspaper editor and politician from New York.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was admitted to the bar in 1831, and practiced in Evans Mills, New York.
  
  He was a member of the New York State Assembly (Jefferson County) in 1837 and 1842.
  
  He was a member of the New York State Senate (21st District) in 1848 and 1849.
  
  From December 1851 to March 1853, and again from September 1853 on, he co-published the Jeffersonian (a weekly paper) in Watertown.
  
  He was buried at the Old Evans Mills Cemetery.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 136, 146, 219, 222, 226 and 308; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
  * A History of Jefferson County by Franklin Benjamin Hough (Albany NY, 1854; pg. 375)
  