James L. Hogeboom

James Lawrence Hogeboom (born August 25, 1766 in Ghent , New York Province, † December 23, 1839 in Castleton , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1823 and 1825 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

James Lawrence Hogeboom, son of Hester Leggett (1739-1832) and Lawrence Hogeboom (1737-1805), was born in Ghent and grew up during the British colonial era. In 1794 he moved to Pittstown and from there in April 1802 to Castleton. Hogeboom worked as a businessman. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1804, 1805, and 1808 . Between 1805 and 1808 he was a judge in Rensselaer County . He then took part in the New York Constituent Assembly in 1821 .

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 Crawford faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Hogeboom was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the ninth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Stephen Van Rensselaer on March 4, 1823 . Since he on a run again in 1824 renounced, he left the after March 3, 1825 Congress of.

After his time at the congress he went back to commercial business. He died on December 23, 1839 in Castleton and was buried there in the cemetery of the same name.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 57, 71, 178, 181, 281 and 363.

Web links

• James L. Hogeboom in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• James L. Hogeboom in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Descent from Hogeboom on the GenForum website