Michael Hoffman (politician)

Michael Hoffman (born October 11, 1787 in Halfmoon , New York , † September 27, 1848 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1825 and 1833 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Michael Hoffman was born in Halfmoon, Saratoga County , about four years after the War of Independence . He pursued an academic career. Hoffman studied medicine and law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in Herkimer , Herkimer County . Between 1823 and 1825 he worked as a district attorney. Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction.

In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress he was elected in the 15th electoral district of New York to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded John Herkimer on March 4, 1825 . He was re-elected three times in a row and then retired from Congress on March 3, 1833 . As a Congressman, he chaired the Committee on Naval Affairs ( 20th to 22nd Congress ).

Hoffman was a judge in Herkimer County between 1830 and 1833 and Canal Commissioner of New York between 1833 and 1835 . In 1836 he worked as a register in the land office in Saginaw ( Michigan ). Then he moved to Herkimer. He served in the New York State Assembly in 1841, 1842, and 1844 . In 1846 he took part as a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of New York. On May 3, 1845, he became a Naval Officer in New York City - a position he held until his death. He died on September 27, 1848 in the then still independent city of Brooklyn.

literature

• Franklin Benjamin Hough, "The New York civil list," Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 42, 281, 361 and 375.

Web links

• Michael Hoffman (politician) in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)