John Hammond (congressman)

John Hammond ( born August 17, 1827 in Crown Point, New York, † May 28, 1889 ) was an American politician. Between 1879 and 1883 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Hammond attended public schools and St. Albans Academy ( Vermont). Then he graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. In 1849, he was a pioneer in California. After the outbreak of the Civil War he enlisted voluntarily. At that time, he held the rank of Private. He was promoted to captain of the cavalry and then to brigadier general. After the war he went 25 years after the manufacture of iron. He was president of the Crown Point Iron Co. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1878 for the 46th Congress Hammond was in the 18th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Andrew Williams on March 4, 1879. He was re-elected once. Since he gave up for reelection in 1882, he retired after March 3, 1883 from the Congress.

He retired from his business activities. On 28 May 1889 he died in Crown Point and was then buried in the Forest Dale Cemetery.