James F. Hastings

James Fred Hastings ( born April 10, 1926 in Olean, Cattaraugus County, New York ) is a former American politician. Between 1969 and 1976 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Between 1943 and 1946 James Hastings served during the Second World War in the Air Corps of the U.S. Navy. Between 1952 and 1966 he was a manager and vice president of the radio station WHDL. From 1964 to 1966 he was advertising manager of the newspaper The Times Herald. He also worked in the real estate and insurance industries. Politically, he joined the Republican Party. He sat for ten years in the City Council of Allegany. There he was in the meantime as a magistrate (Police Justice) worked. Between 1963 and 1965 he was a member of the New York State Assembly, from 1966 to 1968 the state Senate. In the years 1968 and 1972 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part, on each of which Richard Nixon was nominated as a presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1968, Hastings was on the 38th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on January 3, 1969. After three re- elections he could remain until his resignation on 20 January 1976 in Congress. Since 1973, he represented the 39th district where his state. In his time as a congressman fell among other things, the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. His resignation came after he had been sentenced to 14 months in prison for bribery and fraud.

James Hastings was then president of the Albany -based company Associated Industries of New York State, Inc.