Ransom Halloway

Ransom Halloway (* around 1793 in Beekman, New York, † April 6, 1851 in Mount Pleasant, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1849 and 1851 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ransom Halloway was born at the end of the 18th century in Beekman. He went for a job in agriculture. In 1818 he was paymaster in a Brigade of the National Guard of New York. Politically he belonged to the Whig party. In the congressional elections of 1848 he was in the eighth election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Cornelius Warren on March 4, 1849. He retired after March 3, 1851 from the Congress. On April 6, 1851, he died in Mount Pleasant.