Moses H. Grinnell

Moses Hicks Grinnell ( born March 3 1803 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, † November 24, 1877 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1839 and 1841 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Moses Hicks Grinnell was born in the early 19th century in New Bedford. He enjoyed a good education. At 15, he worked in a Counting Room in New York City. Then he went to commercial transactions. Politically, Grinnell of the Whig party to. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was the third electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Churchill C. Cambreleng, Edward Curtis, Josiah O. Hoffman and Ely Moore took on March 4, 1839 which had previously together represent the third district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He suffered in his re-election bid in 1840, a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1841 from the Congress of. After the founding of the Republican Party, he joined this. Grinnell then joined the presidential election in 1856 as a man whose election ( presidential elector ). He was president of the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchants Clerks ' Savings Bank, Commissioner of Charities and Corrections, Central Park Commissioner and member of the Union Defense Committee. Between March 1869 and July 1870, he worked as a collector in the Port of New York and between July 1870 and April 1871 as a Naval Officer of Customs. He died on November 24, 1877 in New York City and was then buried in the Sleepy Hollow Burying Ground in Tarrytown. Congressman Joseph Grinnell was his brother.