Studied with Theodore Dwight, and at the Litchfield Academy with Judge Reeve. Briefly studied at Yale (date unknown). Admitted to the Connecticut bar at an unknown date.

Positions held by John Alsop

Ran a bookstore in New York c. 1803-1809, then practiced law in Middletown, Connecticut.

Middletown Common Council 1818; Alderman 1820, 1821, 1824, 1825 [possible other years]

Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives from Middletown, 1820, 1823

November 1820, as one of the nine "Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States," as certified on November 22.

Member of Connecticut State Senate, 1826-31 (at-large 1826-29, 18th District 1830-31)

May 1822 to July 1832, Judge of the Probate Court in the Middletown Probate District

Senator on the Yale College Board of Governors from 1828 through 1832

1828 Awarded the Honorary Master of Arts at Yale College Commencement, September 10

Also a poet, with poems published in the January 1843Knickerbocker(with a biographical sketch by Theodore Dwight, Jr.) and in Charles William Everest's 1844The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches.

The following poem was published in both of the above:

LINES ΤΟ THE SPIRIT OF A DEPARTED FRIEND.

Soaring to-day through twilight of the grave,

Thou, from thy prison freed, oh Spirit blest!

Now looking back o'er life's tempestuous wave,

Smil'st in thy haven of eternal rest.

Not all Life's joys to earth could thee allure,

Not all Death's terrors damp the hallowed fire

Which Faith enkindled in thy bosom pure,

And bade thy soul on angels' wings aspire.

In vain the flowers of Paradise may blow,

Bloom but to die, in this cold, dreary clime:

Effulgent Bliss to our dark world below

Scarce turns her front, in heavenward flight sublime.

And if her aspect to this dismal wild

She turns, 't is sudden clouded o'er with gloom;

Instant she flies; and, beck'ning Virtue's child,

Bids him through peril seek in Heaven his home.

Studied with Theodore Dwight, and at the Litchfield Academy with Judge Reeve. Briefly studied at Yale (date unknown). Admitted to the Connecticut bar at an unknown date.

Positions held by John Alsop

Ran a bookstore in New York c. 1803-1809, then practiced law in Middletown, Connecticut.

Middletown Common Council 1818; Alderman 1820, 1821, 1824, 1825 [possible other years]

Member of Connecticut State House of Representatives from Middletown, 1820, 1823

November 1820, as one of the nine "Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States," as certified on November 22.

Member of Connecticut State Senate, 1826-31 (at-large 1826-29, 18th District 1830-31)

May 1822 to July 1832, Judge of the Probate Court in the Middletown Probate District

Senator on the Yale College Board of Governors from 1828 through 1832

1828 Awarded the Honorary Master of Arts at Yale College Commencement, September 10

Also a poet, with poems published in the January 1843Knickerbocker(with a biographical sketch by Theodore Dwight, Jr.) and in Charles William Everest's 1844The Poets of Connecticut: With Biographical Sketches.

The following poem was published in both of the above:

LINES ΤΟ THE SPIRIT OF A DEPARTED FRIEND.

Soaring to-day through twilight of the grave,

Thou, from thy prison freed, oh Spirit blest!

Now looking back o'er life's tempestuous wave,

Smil'st in thy haven of eternal rest.

Not all Life's joys to earth could thee allure,

Not all Death's terrors damp the hallowed fire

Which Faith enkindled in thy bosom pure,

And bade thy soul on angels' wings aspire.

In vain the flowers of Paradise may blow,

Bloom but to die, in this cold, dreary clime:

Effulgent Bliss to our dark world below

Scarce turns her front, in heavenward flight sublime.

And if her aspect to this dismal wild

She turns, 't is sudden clouded o'er with gloom;

Instant she flies; and, beck'ning Virtue's child,

Bids him through peril seek in Heaven his home.