Marius Schoonmaker

Marius Schoonmaker (April 24, 1811 – January 5, 1894) was a United States representative from New York.

His father died when he was young, but he attended public schools and graduated from Yale College in 1830.

Schoonmaker was Auditor of the New York State Canal Department from 1854 to 1855, and Superintendent of Banks from 1855 to 1856.

Their son, Captain Cornelius Marius Schoonmaker was a United States Naval Academy graduate who died in the 1889 Apia cyclone in American Samoa.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress