Seth Hastings

Seth Hastings

Seth Hastings (born April 8, 1762 in Cambridge , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  November 19, 1831 in Mendon , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1801 and 1807 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Seth Hastings attended Harvard University until 1782 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1786, he began to work in Mendon in this profession. Between 1794 and 1795 he was treasurer of this community. In 1796 he was appointed school representative there. Politically, he joined the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton at the end of the 1790s .

After the resignation of MP Levi Lincoln , Hastings was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the due by-election for the fourth seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on August 24, 1801. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1807 . Since 1803 he represented the tenth electoral district of his state there. During his time as a congressman in 1803 , the Louisiana Purchase made by President Thomas Jefferson expanded the territory of the United States considerably. In 1804 the twelfth amendment was ratified.

In 1806, Seth Hastings renounced a new congressional candidacy. He was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1810 and 1814 . From 1819 and 1828 he was a judge in Worcester County . He died in Mendon on November 19, 1831. His son William (1798-1842) was also a member of Congress.

Web links

• Seth Hastings in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Seth Hastings in the database of Find a Grave (English)