John Hallock, Jr.

John Hallock junior ( * July 1783 in Oxford, New York, † December 6, 1840 in Ridgebury, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1825 and 1829 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hallock Jr. was born a few weeks before the end of the Revolutionary War at Oxford. He sat 1816-1821 in the New York State Assembly. In 1821 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York as a delegate. At that time he joined the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1824 he was in the sixth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Hector Craig on March 4, 1825. After a successful re-election, he joined after March 3, from 1829, from the Congress. After that he was in the 1830 Judge at the Court of Common Pleas in Orange County. He died on 6 December 1840 in Ridgebury, and was then buried in the nearby cemetery of the Hallock family.