David Hough (New Hampshire)

David Hough (* March 13, 1753 in Norwich, Connecticut, † April 18, 1831 in Lebanon, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1803 and 1807, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

David Hough visited yet in the British colonial era, the common schools and worked for some time as a ship's carpenter. In 1778 he moved to Lebanon, New Hampshire. In his new home he began a political career. He joined the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton and was elected in 1788, 1789 and 1794 in the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. He was also a Justice of the Peace and as a member of the militia colonel. In 1783 he was a delegate at a meeting on the revision of the Constitution of New Hampshire.

In the congressional elections of 1802, which were held all across the state, Hough was the fourth parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1803, the successor of Abiel Foster. In the elections of 1804 he was elected for the third mandate, which he was able to complete up to March 3, 1807 a total of two terms in Congress.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives, David Hough retired from politics. Until his death in 1831, he worked in agriculture.