title: Ezra Graves
text: # Ezra Graves
  
  Ezra Graves (December 1, 1803 – January 8, 1883) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
  
  ## Life
  
  He was born on December 1, 1803, in Russia, Herkimer County, New York, the son of Assemblyman John Graves. He became a tanner and currier. In 1827, he married Maria Card, and they had three children. Then he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1835, and practiced in Herkimer.
  
  He was Undersheriff of Herkimer County while his father was Sheriff; then Commissioner of Deeds; Supervisor of the Town of Herkimer in 1840 and 1841; and President of the Village of Herkimer in 1845
  
  He was First Judge of the Herkimer County Court from 1845 to 1847. After the re-organization of the New York court system, he was Judge and Surrogate of the Herkimer County Court from 1847 to 1855, and from 1860 to 1863.
  
  He was a delegate to the 1856 Republican National Convention. In 1858, he was Temporary Chairman of the Republican state convention. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1867–68. From 1873 to 1875, he was an Inspector of State Prisons, elected at the New York state election, 1872.
  
  He died on January 8, 1883, in Herkimer, New York.
  
  ## Sources
  
  * ↑ History of Herkimer County, New York edited by George A. Hardin (Syracuse NY, 1893; pg. 221f and 453f)
  * ↑ The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 361; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
  * ↑ The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; page 434)
  * ↑ New York Convention Manual issued by the Secretary of State's office, New York, 1867 (pg. ix)
  * ↑ OBITUARY NOTES; The Hon. Ezra Graves... in The New York Times on January 9, 1883
  