Addison H. Laflin

Addison Henry Laflin ( born October 24, 1823 in Lee, Massachusetts, † September 24, 1878 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1871 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Addison Henry Laflin was born about eight years after the end of the British - American War in Berkshire County. He attended community schools. In 1843 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown. Laflin moved to Herkimer County in 1849, where he pursued the manufacture of paper. He sat in the years 1858 and 1859 in the Senate from New York. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1864 for the 39th Congress Laflin was in the 20th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Ambrose W. Clark on March 4, 1865. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up a third re-election bid in 1870, he retired after March 3, 1871 from the Congress. During his time he took Congress in 1867 as a delegate to the Republican State Convention in part.

President Ulysses S. Grant appointed him on April 3, 1871 in New York Harbor Naval Officer - a post he held until his resignation in 1877. Laflin died on September 24, 1878 in Pittsfield, and was then buried at the Oakwood Cemetery in Syracuse.