{{Short description|American politician}} '''Charles Terhune Duryea''' (August 20, 1832 – December 27, 1899) was an American politician from New York.

== Life == Duryea was born on August 20, 1832 in Center Moriches, New York,<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1879slsn/page/n144/mode/1up?view=theater |title=The Evening Journal Almanac, 1879 |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Co. |year=1879 |editor-last=McBride |editor-first=Alexander |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=141 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> the son of John Hubbs Duryea and Maria Duryea.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Duryee |first=Harold T. |url=https://archive.org/details/charlesduryeefam00dury/page/17/mode/1up |title=The Charles Duryee Family: A Genealogy of the Descendants of Charles Duryee, Son of Joost, of Bushwick, Long Island, New York, With the Collateral Families of Schenck, Woodward, Moore, Fish, Leverich, Morse, Bosworth, Dean, Brooks, and Howe |year=1955 |pages=17 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

Duryea attended Miller's Place Academy, a well-known school at the time. When he was 19, he moved with his parents to Dix Hills, where his father built a farm. He left the farm shortly afterwards and became a teacher in the House of Refugee in Manhattan. Shortly after his wedding, he moved to Syosset and began farming there.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=30 December 1899 |title=THE HON. CHARLES TERHUNE DURYEA |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=sss18991230-01.1.3&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=South Side Signal |location=Babylon, N.Y. |page=3 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=31 |issue=1590}}</ref>

Duryea was Justice of the Peace from 1860 to 1862. In 1862, he was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Democrat, representing the Queens County 1st District. He served in the Assembly in 1863 and 1864.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1864slsn/page/80/mode/1up?view=theater |title=The Evening Journal Almanac, 1864 |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Company |year=1864 |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=80 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1865, he moved to Brooklyn and spent the next two years representing a railroad pool in the Bureau of Immigration. In 1867, he moved to Huntington, leased the Suffolk Hotel, and spent the next several years successfully conducting the hotel. In 1874, he moved to Babylon and began managing Sumpwams Hotel, the leading local hotel at the time.<ref name=":0" />

Duryea was a Trustee of Huntington in 1871<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_State_Government_for_1879/vJVQAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Charles%20T.%20Duryea%22 |title=The State Government for 1879: Memorial Volume of the New Capitol, Being Sketches of the Old and New Capitols, and Biographies of the State Officers and Members of the Legislature |publisher=Weed, Parsons and Company |year=1879 |editor-last=Shanks |editor-first=Charles G. |editor-link=Charles G. Shanks |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=99 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref> and Supervisor of Babylon in 1876 and 1878. In 1878, he was the Democratic candidate for the New York State Assembly in Suffolk County and was declared the winner by one vote. He briefly served in 1879 but the Assembly declared the Republican candidate George F. Carman the winner.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1879slsn/page/n144/mode/1up?view=theater |title=The Evening Journal Almanac, 1879 |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Co. |year=1879 |editor-last=McBride |editor-first=Alexander |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=141 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 1879, he was the Democratic candidate for the New York State Senate in New York's 1st State Senate district. He lost the election to Republican candidate John Birdsalls.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/eveningjournalal1880slsn/page/n124/mode/1up?view=theater |title=The Evening Journal Almanac, 1881 |publisher=Weed, Parsons & Co. |year=1881 |editor-last=McBride |editor-first=Alexander |location=Albany, N.Y. |pages=123 |language=en |via=Internet Archive}}</ref>

At one point, Duryea edited the Babylon paper ''Budget'', which later merged with the ''South Side Signal''. In 1883, Sheriff Selah S. Brewster appointed him Under Sheriff. He served in that office until the start of 1886. In 1887, Collector Daniel Magone appointed him Superintendent of New York Bonded Warehouses. And when Deputy Collector Dabney died a few years later, Collector James T. Kilbreth appointed him to that position. He retired in 1896 due to poor health.<ref name=":0" />

In 1858, Duryea married Mary Mowbray Smith. Their children were Carel Smith, Emma Louise, Annie Maria, and Stephen Conklin.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stoutenburgh |first=Henry A. |url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Documentary_History_of_Het_the_Nederde/26YuAAAAYAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=%22Charles%20Terhune%22 |title=A Documentary History of Het (the) Nederdeutsche Gemeente, Dutch Congregation, of Oyster Bay, Queens County, Island of Nassau, Now Long Island |year=1902 |pages=204 |language=en |via=Google Books}}</ref>

Duryea died at home from a long illness on December 27, 1899.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 December 1899 |title=HON. CHARLES T. DURYEA |url=https://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=cor18991230-01.1.2&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN---------- |work=The Corrector |location=Sag Harbor, N.Y. |page=2 |via=NYS Historic Newspapers |volume=78 |issue=31}}</ref> His funeral was conducted at his home and was led by the Rev. George Downings Sparks, the rector of Christ Church in West Islip. A delegation of officers and member from the Freemason lodge Duryea was a member of attended the funeral.<ref>{{Cite news |date=29 December 1899 |title=CHARLES TERHUNT DURYEA |url=https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/50351314/ |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |location=New York, N.Y. |page=11 |via=Brooklyn Public Library Brooklyn Newsstand}}</ref> He was buried in the Babylon Rural Cemetery.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Charles T Duryea (1832-1899) |url=https://peoplelegacy.com/charles_t_duryea-2V2n2i |access-date=2025-03-18 |website=PeopleLegacy}}</ref>

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