Abraham B. Hasbrouck

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck ( born November 29, 1791 in Kingston, New York, † February 24, 1879 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1825 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck was his cousin.

Career

Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck graduated in 1806 at the Kingston Academy and 1810 at Yale College. He studied law in Hudson ( New York) and Litchfield (Connecticut). His admission to the bar he received in 1813 and then began practicing in Kingston in the following year. Politically, he was a member of the Anti- Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress, he was in the seventh election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lemuel Jenkins on March 4, 1825. Since he gave up for reelection in 1826, he retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress.

He was 1831 president of the Ulster County Bank. Between 1840 and 1850 he was president at the Ruthers College (now Rutgers University) and lived during this period in New Brunswick (New Jersey). In 1850 he returned to Kingston. Hasbrouck was president of the Kingston Bank and founder of the Ulster County Historical Society. He died on 24 February 1879 in Kingston, and was then buried at the Pine Street Cemetery.