Hector Craig

Hector Craig (born 1775 in Paisley , Scotland , † January 31, 1842 in Craigsville , New York ) was an American politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1823 and 1825 and between 1829 and 1830 .

Career

Hector Craig was born in Paisley at the beginning of the Revolutionary War . The Craig family then immigrated to the United States in 1790 and settled in Orange County . He inherited several companies from his father, which he then expanded over time to farms, paper and grain mills and a sawmill , which eventually gave rise to the Craigville community. Craig was the founder and protocol secretary of the Orange County Agricultural Society .

As a result of a fragmentation of the Democratic Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 , Craig was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Charles Borland junior on March 4, 1823 . He retired from the after March 3, 1825 Congress of. In 1828 he ran again for a congress seat. After a successful election, he succeeded John Hallock junior on March 4, 1829 , but announced his resignation on July 12, 1830.

President Andrew Jackson appointed him Surveyor and Inspector for the Port of New York in 1830 . In 1832 he was appointed the United States Commissioner of Insolvency . Between 1833 and 1839 he worked as the United States Surveyor of Customs in New York. He died in Craigsville on January 31, 1842, and was then buried in a private cemetery on the Caldwell estate in Blooming Grove. His son-in-law William Frederick Havemeyer (1804–1874) was three times mayor of New York City .

literature

• Samuel Watkins Eager: An Outline History of Orange County , ST Callahan, 1847, p. 546.
• Jared Sparks, Francis Bowen, Johann Schobert and George Partridge Sanger: The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year 1833 , Volume 4, Crosby, Nichols, Lee, 1833, p. 102.

Web links

• Hector Craig in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hector Craig in the database of Find a Grave (English)