Moses Hayden
Moses Hayden (born 1786 near Westfield , Massachusetts , † February 13, 1830 in Albany , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1823 and 1827 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .
Career
Moses Hayden was born in Hampden County approximately three years after the War of Independence ended . He completed his preliminary studies. In 1804 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts. He studied law . After receiving his license to practice law, he began practicing in York , Livingston County . Between 1821 and 1823 he was the first judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Livingston County.
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 Adams-Clay faction. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress , Hayden was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 27th constituency of New York , where he became the first representative of the 27th district of New York in the US on March 4, 1823 -House of Representatives began his service. He joined the Adams faction. In 1824 he successfully ran for the 19th Congress . He then resigned from Congress on March 3, 1827 .
He was elected to the New York Senate , where he sat in Albany from January 6, 1829 until his death on February 13, 1830. His body was then interred in Mount Pleasant Cemetery in York near Fowlerville .
literature
- The New York Civil List , Franklin Benjamin Hough, Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858, pp. 71, 128, 142 and 361.
- Records of the Connecticut Line of the Hayden Family , Jabez Haskell Hayden & William Benjamin Hayden, 1888, p. 147.
- Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts , William Thomas Davis, 1895, pp. 288 and 491.
- History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts , Volume 1, Gale Cengage Learning, pp. 339–33.
Web links
- Moses Hayden in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
- Moses Hayden in the database of Find a Grave (English)
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SURNAME | Hayden, Moses |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American lawyer and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1786 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | near Westfield , Massachusetts |
DATE OF DEATH | February 13, 1830 |
Place of death | Albany , New York |