Horatio G. Knight

Horatio Gates Knight (born March 24, 1818 in Easthampton , Hampshire County , Massachusetts , †  October 16, 1895 ibid) was an American politician . Between 1875 and 1879 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Massachusetts.

Career

Horatio Knight attended public schools in his home country. After an apprenticeship with a businessman who made buttons, he went into business for himself. He was very successful and soon became a well-known figure in the financial and business circles of his homeland. Knight became president or director of numerous craft businesses and banks as well as a railroad company. Politically, he joined the Republican Party . He participated as a delegate at the Republican National Conventions of 1860 and 1872, at which Abraham Lincoln and later Ulysses S. Grant were nominated as presidential candidates. He was also a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the State Senate there at various times . He was also a member of his state's Executive Council . When the Civil War broke out , he financially supported recruiting for a volunteer unit from Massachusetts. In the following years he sat on various committees of the state government.

In 1874, Knight was elected Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts on the side of William Gaston . He held this office between 1875 and 1879. He was Deputy Governor . From 1876 he served under the new governor Alexander H. Rice . In 1893, Horatio Knight appears to have run into financial difficulties. At that time, according to a newspaper article in the New York Times on April 20, 1893, a bankruptcy petition was filed against him. In this context, there is also talk of share fraud in its favor. How this proceeding continued is not mentioned. However, Knight fell ill a few months later and died on October 16, 1895.

Web links

• Horatio G. Knight in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• The Political Graveyard
• Biography (English).