Abner Hazeltine

Abner Hazeltine ( born June 10, 1793 in Wardsboro, Windham County, Vermont, † December 20, 1879 in Jamestown, 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

Abner Hazeltine attended the public schools of his native land and from then until 1815, the Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). In 1815 he moved to Jamestown, where he worked as a teacher. After studying law and his 1819 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Chautauqua County in this profession. In the meantime, he moved his practice to Warren in Pennsylvania, before he returned in 1823 to Jamestown. Between 1826 and 1829 he also worked as a journalist for the newspaper Jamestown Journal. Politically, he joined first the Anti- Masonic Party to. He then became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party. In the years 1829 and 1830 he sat as an MP in the New York State Assembly.

In the congressional elections of 1832 was Hazeltine as a candidate of the Anti- Masonic Party in the then newly established 31 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 as Nationalrepublikaner he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1837 two legislative sessions. Since the inauguration of President Andrew Jackson in 1829, was discussed inside and outside of Congress vehemently about its policy. It was about the controversial enforcement of the Indian Removal Act, the conflict with the State of South Carolina, which culminated in the Nullifikationskrise, and banking policy of the President.

1836 renounced Abner Hazeltine to further Congress candidacy. Between 1847 and 1850 he was district attorney in Chautauqua County; 1859 to 1863, he worked as a district judge. He later became Federal commissioner for the northern part of New York State. A post he held until his death on December 20, 1879 in Jamestown.