Gideon Hard

Gideon Hard ( born April 29, 1797 in Arlington, Vermont, † April 27, 1885 in Albion, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1833 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1822 Gideon Hard graduated from Union College in Schenectady. After that, he taught for some time as a teacher. After studying law and his 1825 was admitted to the bar he began in Newport, today's Albion to work in this profession. Politically, he was first the Anti- Masonic Party on. Then he joined the movement against the later U.S. President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1832 was hard in the then newly established 33 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1833. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. These were determined by the discussions about the policy of President Jackson.

Between 1841 and 1848 Hard sat in the Senate from New York. At the same time he was a school commissioner in Barre in Orleans County. In 1849 and 1850 he was commissioner channel (Canal appraiser ). By 1850, he practiced as a lawyer even; 1856 to 1860 he served as District Judge. He died on April 27, 1885 in Albion, where he was also buried.