Samuel G. Hathaway

Samuel Gilbert Hathaway (born July 18, 1780 in Freetown , Massachusetts , † May 2, 1867 in Solon , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1833 and 1835 he represented the state of New York in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Gilbert Hathaway was born in Bristol County during the Revolutionary War . He attended public schools. Then he worked in various jobs and went on a sea voyage. In 1803 he moved to Chenango County and from there two years later to Cincinnatus in Cortland County . There he pursued agricultural activities. Between 1810 and 1848 he worked as a justice of the peace. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1814 and 1818 . In 1819 he moved to Solon. He sat in the New York Senate in 1822 . Between 1823 and 1858 he held the rank of major general in the New York militia . Politically, he belonged to the Jacksonian faction at that time .

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress Hathaway was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 22nd  electoral district of New York , where he succeeded Edward C. Reed on March 4, 1833 . He retired from the after March 3, 1835 Congress of.

In the presidential election of 1852 he stood as an elector for the Democratic Party . In 1860 he accepted as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Charleston . He died about two years after the end of the civil war in Solon and was then buried in the family cemetery near Solon.

Web links

• Samuel G. Hathaway in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel G. Hathaway in the database of Find a Grave (English)