James L. Hogeboom

James Lawrence Hogeboom ( born August 25, 1766 Ghent, New York, † December 23, 1839 in Castleton, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

James Lawrence Hogeboom, son of Hester Leggett (1739-1832) and Lawrence Hogeboom (1737-1805) was born in Ghent and grew up during the British colonial period. In 1794 he moved to Pittstown, and from there in April 1802 Castleton. Hogeboom worked as a businessman. He sat in the years 1804, 1805 and 1808 in the New York State Assembly. Between 1805 and 1808, he was a judge in Rensselaer County. He then took part in the 1821 Constituent Assembly of New York.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Crawford Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Hogeboom 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 Stephen Van Rensselaer on March 4, 1823. Since he gave up for reelection in 1824, he retired after the March 3, 1825 out of the Congress.

After his conference time he returned to commercial transactions. He died on December 23, 1839 in Castleton, and was then buried there in the same cemetery.