Joseph H. Tuthill

Joseph Hasbrouck Tuthill ( born February 25, 1811 in Blooming Grove, New York; † July 27, 1877 in Ellenville, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1871 and 1873 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives. Congressman Selah Tuthill was his uncle.

Career

Joseph Hasbrouck Tuthill was born about in Blooming Grove in Orange County, a year before the outbreak of the British - American War, where he spent his youth. The Tuthill family moved in 1824 after Shawangunk in Ulster County. He attended community schools and private schools. He then went to commercial transactions, but also worked in agriculture. He moved in 1828 to New York City and from there in 1832 after Ulsterville. During the whole time he was on to commercial transactions. In 1834 he moved to Ellenville. Tuthill sat in the years 1842, 1843, 1861, 1862 and 1865-1870 in the Board of Supervisors in Ulster County. Between 1843 and 1847 worked as a clerk ( clerk ) in Ulster County. He was president of the Ellenville Glass Works.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In 1866 he ran unsuccessfully for the 40th Congress. In the congressional elections of 1870 for the 42nd Congress Tuthill was in the 13th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Ashley Griswold on March 4, 1871. He retired after the March 3, 1873 out of the Congress.

On July 27, 1877, he died in Ellenville and was then buried in the Cemetery Fantinekill in Ellenville.