Ogden Hoffman

Josiah Ogden Hoffman ( May 3, 1793 in New York City; † May 1, 1856 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1837 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Josiah Ogden Hoffman was born about a decade after the end of the Revolutionary War in New York. He studied classical archeology, and then graduated in 1812 from Columbia College. After the outbreak of the British - American War the same year he enlisted in the U.S. Navy. Hoffman served there for three years and has held the rank of Midshipman in 1814. After retiring from the U.S. Navy, he studied law and began after receiving his license to practice law in Goshen to practice. Between 1823 and 1826, he was district attorney ( district attorney ) in Orange County. Then he returned to New York City. In the years 1825, 1826 and 1828, he sat in the New York State Assembly. Then he went to 1829-1835 employment as district attorney in New York City.

Politically he belonged to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1836 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeds Gideon Lee, John McKeon and Ely Moore took on March 4, 1837 which had previously together represent the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. Hoffman was re-elected in 1840. He then retired after March 3, 1841 out of the Congress. After that, he was 1841-1845 as a federal prosecutor for the Southern District of New York and worked from 8 November 1853 to 7 November 1855 as Attorney General of New York. He died on May 1, 1856 in New York City and was buried in the church crypt of St. Mark 's Church.