Hiram P. Hunt

Hiram Paine Hunt ( * May 23, 1796 in Pittstown, New York, † August 14 1865 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented 1835-1837 and 1839-1843 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiram Paine Hunt was born shortly before the end of the 18th century in Pitt Town and grew up there. During this time he attended public schools and then graduated in 1816 from Union College in Schenectady. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School. His admission to the bar he received in May 1819 and then began practicing in Pittstown. In 1822, he worked as city clerk (town clerk ) in Pittstown. He retired in 1825 after Lansingburgh and from there in 1831 to Troy, where he continued to practice as a lawyer.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the at the time of anti- Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1834 for the 24th Congress Hunt was in the ninth constituency of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Job Pierson on March 4, 1835. In 1836 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1837 from the Congress of. In the following years, he joined the Whig party to. He was then elected to the 26th Congress, where he became the successor of Henry Vail on March 4, 1839. After a successful re-election he resigned in 1842 to run again and was eliminated after March 3, 1843 from the Congress of.

After his conference time he was first in Troy worked as a lawyer and later in New York City, where he died on 14 August 1865. At this time the Civil War was about three weeks ago to end.