Moses Hicks Grinnell

Moses Hicks Grinnell

Moses Hicks Grinnell (born March 3, 1803 in New Bedford , Massachusetts , † November 24, 1877 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1839 and 1841 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Moses Hicks Grinnell was born in New Bedford in the early 19th century. He enjoyed a good education. When he was 15, he was working in a counting room in New York City. Then he went about commercial business. Politically, Grinnell was a member of the Whig Party . In the congressional elections of 1838 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of New York , where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng , Edward Curtis , Josiah O. Hoffman and Ely Moore on March 4, 1839 who had previously represented the third district in the US House of Representatives. He suffered for his re-election bid in 1840 , a defeat and withdrew from the after March 3, 1841 Congress of. After the founding of the Republican Party , he joined this. Grinnell came then in the presidential election in 1856 as the elector ( presidential elector ) on. He has served as President of the Chamber of Commerce and Merchants Clerks' Savings Bank , Commissioner of Charities and Corrections , Central Park Commissioner, and a member of the Union Defense Committee . Between March 1869 and July 1870 he worked as a collector in the Port of New York and between July 1870 and April 1871 as a Naval Officer of Customs . He died on November 24, 1877 in New York City and was then buried in the Sleepy Hollow Burying Ground in Tarrytown . Congressman Joseph Grinnell was his brother.

literature

• THE LATE MOSES H. GRINNELL .; ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE FUNERAL - REMINISCENCES OF THE DECEASED GENTLEMAN. , The New York Times, November 26, 1877.
• George W. Sheldon, "Old Shipping Merchants of New York," Harper's magazine, Issue 84, Feb. 1892, pp. 457-471.
• George Wilson: "Portrait gallery of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York," New York: Press of the Chamber of Commerce, 1890, OCLC 2747994, pp. 44-47.

Web links

• Moses Hicks Grinnell in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Moses Hicks Grinnell in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Moses Hicks Grinnell on the Mr. Lincoln and New York website