John Hallock Junior

John Hallock junior (born July 1783 in Oxford , New York , † December 6, 1840 in Ridgebury , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1825 and 1829 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Hallock Jr. was born in Oxford a few weeks before the end of the Revolutionary War . He was a member of the New York State Assembly between 1816 and 1821 . In 1821 he took part as a delegate to the New York Constituent Assembly . At that time he joined the Jacksonian faction. In the congressional election of 1824 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the sixth constituency of New York , where he succeeded Hector Craig on March 4, 1825 . After a successful re-election, he resigned from Congress on March 3, 1829 . He then served as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Orange County in the 1830s . He died in Ridgebury on December 6, 1840, and was buried in the nearby Hallock family cemetery.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough: The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 57, 71, 82, 192, 197 and 278.
• Craig Hanyan and Mary L. Hanyan: DeWitt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men , McGill-Queens, August 10, 1996, pp. 259f.

Web links

• John Hallock junior in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John Hallock Jr. in the database of Find a Grave (English)