Augustus C. Hand

Augustus Cincinnatus Hand ( born September 4, 1803 in Shoreham, Vermont, † March 8, 1878 in Elizabethtown, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Augustus Cincinnatus Hand was born in the beginning of the 19th century in Shoreham in Addison County. He pursued an academic career. Hand studied law in Litchfield (Connecticut). His admission to the bar he received in 1828, then began to practice in Crown Point. In 1831 he moved to Elizabethtown. He was 1831-1839 as guardianship and estate Richter ( surrogate ) in Essex County operates. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

In the congressional elections of 1838, for the 26th Congress, he was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Palmer on March 4, 1839. He retired after the March 3, 1841 out of the Congress.

We chose him in 1844 to the Senate from New York, where he worked for several years then. In 1847 he was an Associate Justice (associate justice) at the New York Supreme Court - a position which he held until 1855. As a delegate, he took in 1868 at the Democratic National Convention in part in New York City. He then worked as a lawyer again. He died on 8 March 1878 in Elizabethtown and was then buried in the Riverside Cemetery.