Calvin T. Hulburd

Calvin Tilden Hulburd (born June 5, 1809 in Stockholm , New York , † October 25, 1897 in Brasher Falls , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1863 and 1869 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Calvin Tilden Hulburd was born in Stockholm in St. Lawrence County about three years before the outbreak of the British-American War . He completed his undergraduate studies and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont . Then he went to Yale College Law School . He was admitted to the bar in 1833. He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1842 and 1844 and in 1862 . Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party .

In the congressional election of 1862 for the 38th Congress , Hulburd was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Socrates N. Sherman on March 4, 1863 . He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he on a run again in 1868 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1869 Congress of. As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Public Expenditures (38th to 40th Congress ).

After his time in Congress, he was Superintendent of Construction at the New York Post Office . He died on October 25, 1897 in Brasher Falls and was then buried in Fairview Cemetery .

Web links

• Calvin T. Hulburd in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Calvin T. Hulburd in the database of Find a Grave (English)