Hiram Walbridge

Hiram Walbridge ( born February 2, 1821 in Ithaca, New York, † December 6, 1870 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. From 1853 to 1855 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Hiram Walbridge was born about six years after the end of the British - American War in Ithaca, where he spent the first few years. His family then moved to Ohio and settled in 1836 in Toledo down. He attended public schools and the University of Ohio at Athens. Walbridge studied law and began after the receipt of his admission as a solicitor in 1842 to practice in Toledo. The following year he was appointed brigadier general in the militia of Ohio. He then moved to New York, where he pursued in Buffalo commercial transactions. He sat on the Board of Aldermen. Then he moved in 1847 to New York City, where he pursued further commercial transactions. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1852 he was in the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Emanuel B. Hart on March 4, 1853. Since he gave up for reelection in 1854, he retired after March 3, 1855 from the Congress. Thereafter he devoted himself in New York City his past transactions. After the outbreak of the Civil War he was a candidate in 1862 as a Union candidate unsuccessfully for a congress seat. On 11 July 1865 he took over as president of the International Commercial Convention in Detroit ( Michigan) and 1866 in part as a delegate to the Southern Loyalist Convention in Philadelphia. He died on December 6, 1870 in New York City and then in the Glenwood Cemetery in Washington DC buried. Congressman Henry S. Walbridge was his cousin.