Samuel G. Hathaway

Samuel Gilbert Hathaway ( born July 18, 1780 in Freetown, Massachusetts; † May 2, 1867 in Solon, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1833 and 1835, he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Samuel Gilbert Hathaway was born during the War of Independence in Bristol County. He attended public schools. Then he went after various employment and made a sea voyage. In 1803 he moved two years later, according to Chenango County and from there to Cincinnatus in Cortland County. There he went to agricultural activities. Between 1810 and 1848 he served as justice of the peace. He sat in 1814 and 1818 in the New York State Assembly. In 1819 he moved to Solon. He sat in 1822 in the Senate from New York. Between 1823 and 1858 he held the rank of major general in the militia of New York. Politically, he was a member at the time of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1832 for the 23rd Congress Hathaway was in the 22nd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Edward C. Reed on March 4, 1833. He retired after the March 3, 1835 out of the Congress.

In the presidential elections of 1852 he ran as an elector for the Democratic Party. In 1860 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Charleston. He died about two years after the end of the civil war in Solon and was then buried in the family cemetery at Solon.