Seth Hastings

Seth Hastings ( born April 8, 1762, Cambridge, Massachusetts, † November 19, 1831 in Mendon, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1801 and 1807, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Seth Hastings attended the Harvard University until 1782. After a subsequent law degree in 1786 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started working in Mendon in this profession. Between 1794 and 1795 he was treasurer of the church. In 1796, he became a university lecturer. Politically, he joined the end of the 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party.

Following the resignation of Mr Levi Lincoln Hastings was at the due election for the fourth seat from Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 24 August 1801. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1807, at the Congress. Since 1803 he represented there the tenth constituency of his state. During his time as a congressman, the territory of the United States has been considerably enlarged in 1803 by the investments made by President Thomas Jefferson Louisiana Purchase. 1804, the Twelfth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

1806 renounced Seth Hastings on a new Congress candidacy. In the years 1810 and 1814 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. From 1819 and 1828 he was a judge in Worcester County. He died on 19 November 1831 in Mendon. His son William (1798-1842) was also a congressman.