Michael Hoffman (congressman)

Michael Hoffman ( born October 11, 1787 Half Moon, New York, † September 27, 1848 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1825 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Michael Hoffman was born about four years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Halfmoon in Saratoga County. He pursued an academic career. Hoffman studied medicine and law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in Herkimer Herkimer County. Between 1823 and 1825 he worked as a district attorney. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1824 for the 19th Congress, he was in the 15th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Herkimer on March 4, 1825. He was re-elected three times in a row and then retired after the March 3, 1833 from the Congress of. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Naval Affairs ( 20th to 22nd Congress ).

Hoffman was 1830-1833 judge in Herkimer County and 1833-1835 Canal Commissioner of New York. In 1836 he worked as a register in the Land Registry Office ( country office ) in Saginaw ( Michigan). Then he moved to Herkimer. He sat in the years 1841, 1842 and 1844 in the New York State Assembly. In 1846 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of New York as a delegate. On 3 May 1845 he was Naval Officer in New York City - a position which he held until his death. He died on 27 September 1848 in the then- independent city of Brooklyn.