Cadwallader David Colden (April 4, 1769 – February 7, 1834) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 55th Mayor of New York City and a U.S. Representative from the State of New York.
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Early life
Colden was born at Spring Hill in Flushing, Queens, the family home, on April 4, 1769, in the Province of New York. He was the son of David Colden and Ann Alice (née Willett) Colden. He was the brother of Alice Christy Colden, Maria Colden, who married Josiah Ogden Hoffman, Elizabeth Colden, who married Edward Laight, and Catherine Colden, who married Thomas Cooper.
He was the grandson of Alice (née Chrystie) Colden and Cadwallader Colden, who served as the Governor of the Province of New York several times in the 1760s. He was taught by a private tutor and then provided a classical education in Jamaica, New York and London, Great Britain. After returning to the United States in 1785, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1791.