Tracy C. (Tracy Chatfield) Becker

Born in Cohoes, New York, in 1855, Tracy Chatfield Becker built his career as a lawyer and later became a prominent figure in Buffalo public life. Records connect him with Republican politics in New York, including service as a delegate to the 1894 New York State Constitutional Convention, and correspondence preserved by the Theodore Roosevelt Center shows that he remained active in political circles well into the early twentieth century.

As an author, he is most closely associated with Medical Jurisprudence, Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, a substantial multi-volume work created with physician Rudolph August Witthaus. The book's lasting library and reprint presence suggests it was valued as a serious professional reference, especially for readers interested in the meeting point of medicine, evidence, and the law.

Becker died in 1935. What stands out about his work is the way it bridges worlds that are often kept apart: legal reasoning, medical expertise, and the practical demands of public life.