Josiah Ogden Hoffman (politician, 1793)

Josiah Ogden Hoffman (born May 3, 1793 in New York City , † May 1, 1856 ibid) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1837 and 1841 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives . The Attorney General of New York Josiah Ogden Hoffman (politician, 1766) was his father.

Career

Josiah Ogden Hoffman was born in New York about ten years after the end of the Revolutionary War . He studied classical antiquity and then graduated from Columbia College in 1812 . After the outbreak of the British-American War in the same year, he enlisted in the US Navy . Hoffman served there for three years and in 1814 held the rank of midshipman . After retiring from the US Navy, he studied law and began practicing as a lawyer in Goshen after receiving his license. Between 1823 and 1826 he was a district attorney ( district attorney ) in Orange County . Then he returned to New York City. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1825, 1826, and 1828 . He then went to work as a district attorney in New York City between 1829 and 1835.

Politically, he was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional election of 1836 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Gideon Lee , John McKeon and Ely Moore on March 4, 1837 , who had previously been the third together Had represented district in the US House of Representatives. Hoffman was re-elected in 1840 . He then left the Congress after March 3, 1841 . He then worked between 1841 and 1845 as the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York and from November 8, 1853 to November 7, 1855 as Attorney General of New York. He died on May 1, 1856 in New York City and was then buried in the crypt of St. Mark's Church.

Web links

• Josiah Ogden Hoffman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Josiah Ogden Hoffman in the database of Find a Grave (English)