Moses Hayden

Moses Hayden (* 1786 in Westfield, Massachusetts, † February 13, 1830 in Albany, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1823 and 1827 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Moses Hayden was born about three years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Hampden County. He completed his preliminary studies. In 1804 he graduated from Williams College in Williamstown (Massachusetts ). He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law, he began to practice in York, Livingston County. Between 1821 and 1823 he was the first judge of the Court of Common Pleas in Livingston County.

As a result of fragmentation of the Democratic-Republican Party before and during the presidency of John Quincy Adams (1825-1829), he joined the Adams - Clay Group. In the congressional elections of 1822 for the 18th Congress Hayden was in the 27th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he was the first representative of the 27th District of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives began its service on March 4, 1823. He joined the Adams Group. In 1824 he successfully ran for the 19th Congress. He then retired after March 3, 1827 from the Congress.

We elected him to the Senate from New York, where he sat from January 6th 1829 until his death on February 13, 1830 in Albany. His body was then buried in the Mount Pleasant Cemetery in York in Fowlerville.