Abraham B. Hasbrouck

Abraham B. Hasbrouck

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (born November 29, 1791 in Kingston , New York , † February 24, 1879 there ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1825 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . Congressman Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck was his cousin.

Career

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck graduated from Kingston Academy in 1806 and from Yale College in 1810 . He studied law in Hudson (New York) and Litchfield ( Connecticut ). He was admitted to the bar in 1813 and began practicing in Kingston the following year. Politically, he belonged to the anti-Jacksonian faction .

In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the seventh constituency of New York , where he succeeded Lemuel Jenkins on March 4, 1825 . Since he on a run again in 1826 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1827 Congress of.

He became president of Ulster County Bank in 1831 . Between 1840 and 1850 he was president of Ruthers College (now Rutgers University ) and lived in New Brunswick ( New Jersey ) during this time . In 1850 he returned to Kingston. Hasbrouck was President of Kingston Bank and founder of the Ulster County Historical Society . He died on February 24, 1879 in Kingston and was then buried in Pine Street Cemetery .

Web links

• Abraham B. Hasbrouck in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Abraham B. Hasbrouck in the database of Find a Grave (English)