Commodore Perry Vedder (February 23, 1838 – December 24, 1910) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

[1] He attended the common schools, and then spent five years as a sailor on the Great Lakes.

[2] During the American Civil War he enlisted as a private in the 154th New York Volunteers, fought in the battles of Chancellorsville, Wauhatchie, Lookout Mountain, Bentonville and others; and finished the war as a lieutenant colonel of Volunteers.

[2] After the war, he finished his law studies, was admitted to the bar in 1866, and practiced in Ellicottville.

He died of heart disease at the Majestic Hotel in New York City on December 24, 1910, and was buried at the Sunset Hill Cemetery in Ellicottville.