Augustus C. Hand

Augustus Cincinnatus Hand (born September 4, 1803 in Shoreham , Vermont , † March 8, 1878 in Elizabethtown , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1839 and 1841 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Augustus Cincinnatus Hand was born in Shoreham, Addison County , in the early 19th century . He pursued an academic career. Hand studied law in Litchfield ( Connecticut ). He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and then began practicing at Crown Point . In 1831 he moved to Elizabethtown. He served as a guardianship and probate judge ( surrogate ) in Essex County between 1831 and 1839 . Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

In the congressional elections of 1838 for the 26th Congress he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 13th  constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Palmer on March 4, 1839 . He retired from the after March 3, 1841 Congress of.

He was elected to the New York Senate in 1844 , where he served for several years. In 1847 he became associate justice at the New York Supreme Court - a position he held until 1855. As a delegate he took part in the Democratic National Convention in New York City in 1868 . Then he worked as a lawyer again. He died on March 8, 1878 in Elizabethtown and was then buried in Riverside Cemetery .

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 73, 82, 135, 141 and 851.
• "There shall be a Court of Appeals ..." , The Historical Society of the Courts of the State of New York, p. 91.

Web links

• Augustus C. Hand in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Augustus C. Hand in the database of Find a Grave (English)