Calvin T. Hulburd

Calvin Tilden Hulburd ( born June 5, 1809 in Stockholm, New York, † October 25, 1897 in Brasher Falls, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1863 and 1869 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Calvin Tilden Hulburd was born about three years before the outbreak of the British - American War in Stockholm in St. Lawrence County. He completed his studies and graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont. Then he went on to Yale College Law School. His admission to the bar he received in 1833. He sat 1842-1844 and in 1862 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1862 for the 38th Congress Hulburd was in the 17th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Socrates N. Sherman on March 4, 1863. He was re-elected twice in a row. Since he gave up for reelection in 1868, he retired after the March 3, 1869 out of the Congress. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Public Expenditures ( 38th to 40th Congress ).

After his conference time he was Superintendent of Construction at the New York Post Office. On October 25, 1897, he died in Brasher Falls and was then buried in the Fairview Cemetery.