Harry Hibbard

Harry Hibbard ( born June 1, 1816 in Concord, Essex County, Vermont, † July 28, 1872 in Somerville, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1855 he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harry Hibbard received a good basic education and then studied until 1835 at Dartmouth College in Hanover. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1838 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Bath. Between 1840 and 1842 he was an administrative employee at the House of Representatives from New Hampshire. Politically, Hibbard member of the Democratic Party. Between 1843 and 1845 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives of his State; since 1844 he was its president. In the years 1845, 1847 and 1848 Hibbard was a member of the State Senate. In the last two years, he was also president of the chamber. 1848 and 1856 he took part in each case as a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions.

1848 Hibbard in the fourth district of New Hampshire was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of James Hutchins Johnson on March 4, 1849. After a re-election in 1850, he could represent the fourth electoral district until March 3, 1853 at the Congress. In 1852 he successfully ran in the third district. He was followed on March 4, 1853 Jared Perkins of the Whig party. Since he resigned in 1854 on a bid again, Hibbard resigned from the Congress on March 3, 1855.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Hibbard declined appointment as a judge on his state Supreme Court. He has had no further political office more and died in 1872 in a sanatorium in Somerville (Massachusetts ). Harry Hibbard was a cousin of Ellery Albee Hibbard (1826-1903), who represented New Hampshire 1871-1873 in Congress.