William Hogan (New York)

William Hogan ( born July 17, 1792 in the Parish of St. Paul's Covent Garden, United Kingdom, † November 25, 1874 in Washington DC) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Hogan was born during the reign of George III. , King of Great Britain and Ireland, in the Parish of St. Paul's Covent Garden in London. The family first moved to the Cape Colony in 1803 and then emigrated to the United States, where they settled in New York City. He pursued classical antiquity Sciences and graduated in 1811 from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in New York City. During the British - American War, he participated in the Battle of Plattsburgh in part on the staff of George Clinton. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, but not practiced. In the years 1822 and 1823 he sat in the New York State Assembly. He was then 1829-1837 district judge in Franklin County. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1830 for the 22nd Congress Hogan was in the 19th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Isaac Finch on March 4, 1831. In 1832 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after the March 3, 1833 from the Congress of.

On March 30, 1855, he was appointed Examiner of Claims and then to the interpreter in the Department of State in Washington DC - A position which he held until October 8, 1869. He died on 25 November 1874 in Washington DC and was buried in the Trinity Church Cemetery in New York City.