Hector Craig

Hector Craig (* 1775 in Paisley, Scotland, † January 31, 1842 in Craigville, New York ) was an American politician. He represented 1823-1825 and the years 1829 and 1830, the New York State in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hector Craig was born at the beginning of the Revolutionary War in Paisley. The Craig family then emigrated to the United States in 1790 and settled in Orange County. He inherited several things from his father, which he then goal for the passage of time on farms, paper and corn mills and a sawmill, which eventually gave rise to the community Craigville. Craig was the founder and secretary of the protocol Orange County Agricultural Society.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 Craig was in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Charles Borland junior on March 4, 1823. He retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress. In 1828 he ran again for a congress seat. After a successful election, he entered on March 4, 1829, the successor of John Hallock junior, but he gave his resignation on July 12, 1830 known.

President Andrew Jackson appointed him in 1830 to the Surveyor and Inspector of the Port of New York. In 1832 he was appointed United States Commissioner of Insolvency. Between 1833 and 1839 he served as United States Surveyor of Customs in New York. He died on 31 January 1842 in Craigville, and was then buried in a private cemetery on the estate of Caldwell in Blooming Grove. His son William Frederick Havemeyer (1804-1874) was three times mayor of New York City.