Waldo Hutchins

Waldo Hutchins ( born September 30, 1822 in Brooklyn, Connecticut, † February 8, 1891 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1879 and 1885 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Waldo Hutchins was born about seven and a half years after the end of the British - American War in Brooklyn in Windham County. In 1842 he graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1845 and then began to practice in New York City. In 1852 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He took part in 1867 as a delegate of the Constitutional Convention of New York. Between 1857 and 1869 he worked as a Park Commissioner. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

He was in a by-election on 4 November 1879 twelfth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Alexander Smith. Smith died on November 5, 1878, before he could take up his duties. In 1880, Hutchins was elected to the 48th Congress and in 1882 in the 49th Congress. Since he gave up for reelection in 1884, he retired after March 3, 1885 from the Congress.

After his time Congress, he worked as a lawyer back in New York City. In 1887 he was appointed Park Commissioner - a position which he held until his death. He died on February 8, 1891 in New York City and was buried in the Woodlawn Cemetery.