Abraham J. Hasbrouck

Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck ( born October 16, 1773 in Guilford, New York, † January 12, 1845 in Kingston, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1813 and 1815 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck was his cousin.

Career

Abraham Joseph Hasbrouck was born about one and a half years before the outbreak of the Revolutionary War in Guilford and grew up there. During this time he received private lessons. In 1795 he moved to Kingston, where he pursued commercial transactions. He was one of the founders of the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company. Governor Jay appointed him as First Lieutenant in the cavalry. He was founder and director of the Middle District Bank of Kingston. In 1811 he sat in the New York State Assembly.

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1812 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 Harmanus Bleecker on March 4, 1813. Since he gave up for reelection in 1814, he retired after the March 3, 1815 out of the Congress.

After that he went to the transport of goods by waterway to New York City. In 1822 he sat in the Senate from New York. He died on 12 January 1845 in Kingston, and was then buried in the Albany Avenue Cemetery.