Harry Hibbard

Harry Hibbard

Harry Hibbard (born June 1, 1816 in Concord , Vermont , †  July 28, 1872 in Somerville , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1849 and 1855 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Harry Hibbard received a good primary education and then studied until 1835 at Dartmouth College in Hanover . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1838, he began to practice in Bath in this profession. Between 1840 and 1842 he was an administrator with the New Hampshire House of Representatives . Politically, Hibbard was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1843 and 1845 he was a member of the House of Representatives of his state; since 1844 he was its speaker . In 1845, 1847 and 1848 Hibbard was a member of the State Senate . He has also been President of this Chamber for the last two years. In 1848 and 1856 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions .

In 1848 Hibbard was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the fourth district of New Hampshire , where he succeeded James Hutchins Johnson on March 4, 1849 . After re-election in 1850, he was able to represent the fourth electoral district in Congress until March 3, 1853 . In 1852 he ran successfully in the third district. There he followed Jared Perkins of the Whig Party on March 4, 1853 . Since he refused to run again in 1854, Hibbard resigned from Congress on March 3, 1855.

After his tenure in the House of Representatives ended, Hibbard turned down an appointment to the Supreme Court Justice of his state. He did not hold any other political offices and died in a sanatorium in Somerville, Massachusetts in 1872. Harry Hibbard was a cousin of Ellery Albee Hibbard (1826-1903), who represented New Hampshire in Congress between 1871 and 1873.

Web links

• Harry Hibbard in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)