Hiram Walbridge

Hiram Walbridge, 1855

Hiram Walbridge (born February 2, 1821 in Ithaca , New York , † December 6, 1870 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Hiram Walbridge was born in Ithaca about six years after the end of the British-American War and spent the first few years there. His family then moved to Ohio and settled in Toledo in 1836 . He attended public schools and the University of Ohio at Athens . Walbridge studied law and began practicing in Toledo in 1842 after receiving his license to practice law. The following year he was named brigadier general in the Ohio Militia . He then moved to New York, where he did business in Buffalo . He was on the Board of Aldermen . He then moved to New York City in 1847, where he continued to do business. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party . In the congressional elections of 1852 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Emanuel B. Hart on March 4, 1853 . Since he on a run again in 1854 renounced, he left the after 3 March 1855 Congress of. He then moved on to his previous business in New York City. After the outbreak of the civil war , he ran unsuccessfully as a Union candidate for a congress seat in 1862 . On 11 July 1865 he took over as president of the International Commercial Convention in Detroit ( Michigan part) and 1866 as a delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia . He died on December 6, 1870 in New York City and was then buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington DC. Congressman Henry S. Walbridge was his cousin.

Web links

• Hiram Walbridge in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Hiram Walbridge in the database of Find a Grave (English)