Hestor L. Stevens

Hestor Lockhart Stevens ( born October 1, 1803 in Lima, Livingston County, New York, † May 7, 1864 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician. Between 1853 and 1855 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hestor Stevens attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Rochester to work in his new profession. Stevens rose in the militia in the western part of New York State up to major general.

After a move to Pontiac, Michigan, he began a brief political career as a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1852, he was elected in the then newly created fourth electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1853. Since he resigned in 1854 to run again, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1855. This was shaped by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War.

After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives Hestor Stevens worked as a lawyer in the capital Washington. Politically, he is no longer have appeared until his death on May 7, 1864.

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