Hiram P. Hunt

Hiram Paine Hunt (born May 23, 1796 in Pittstown , New York , † August 14, 1865 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1835 and 1837 and between 1839 and 1843 .

Career

Hiram Paine Hunt was born and raised in Pittstown just before the end of the 18th century. During this time he attended public schools and then graduated from Union College in Schenectady in 1816 . He studied law at Litchfield Law School . He was admitted to the bar in May 1819 and then began practicing in Pittstown. In 1822, he served as town clerk ( town clerk working) in Pittstown. He moved to Lansingburgh in 1825 and from there to Troy in 1831 , where he continued to practice as a lawyer.

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 anti-Jacksonian faction at that time . In the 1834 congressional election for the 24th Congress , Hunt was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the ninth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Job Pierson on March 4, 1835 . In 1836 he was defeated in his re-election bid and was eliminated from the after March 3, 1837 Congress of. In the following period he joined the Whig Party . He was then elected to the 26th Congress , where he succeeded Henry Vail on March 4, 1839 . After a successful re-election in 1842, he decided not to run again and left the Congress on March 3, 1843.

After his time in Congress, he worked as a lawyer in Troy and later in New York City, where he died on August 14, 1865. At this point the civil war had been over for about three weeks.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: "The New York civil list" , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 73f.

Web links

• Hiram P. Hunt in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)