Andrew James Colvin (April 30, 1808 inCoeymans,Albany County, New York – July 8, 1889 inAlbany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

He was the son of James Colvin (1776–1846) and Catherine Huyck (Verplanck) Colvin (1778–1882). He attendedThe Albany Academy. Then he studied law in the office ofVan Buren &Butler, was admitted to the bar, and practiced in Albany. He married Rosina M. Alling (1810–1843), and they had two children.

He was Corporation Counsel of Albany in 1842. On September 2, 1845, he married Margaret Crane Alling (1812–1900), a sister of his first wife, and their son wasVerplanck Colvin (1847–1920), the ideator of theNew York Forest Preserve.

Andrew J. Colvin was District Attorney of Albany County from 1846 to 1847, and from 1851 to 1853; and a member of theNew York State Senate (13th D.) in1860 and1861.

He was buried at the Grove Cemetery in Coeymans.

AssemblymanJohn Colvin (1752–1814) was his grandfather.

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1867; pg. 358, 442 and 529)
• Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature of the State of New York by William D. Murphy (1861; pg. 42ff)
• Colvin genealogy at Schenectady History
• Grove Cemetery records at Betty Fink
• OBITUARY; ANDREW J. COLVIN in NYT on July 21, 1889

• Andrew J. Colvin atFind a Grave

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