Hugh Halsey

Hugh Halsey

Hugh Halsey (June 26, 1794 - May 29, 1858 Bridgehampton, Suffolk County, New York) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Dr. Stephen Halsey, Jr., and Hamutal Howell Halsey (ca. 1762-1848). He graduated from Yale College. Then he studied law with Franklin Viele in Waterford, New York, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Madison County, New York.

He was a member from Suffolk County of the New York State Assembly in 1822 and 1824. He was Surrogate of Suffolk County from 1827 to 1840, and First Judge of the County Court from 1833 to 1847. He was Democratic presidential elector in 1844. He was New York State Surveyor General from 1845 until the end of 1847.

He was a member of the New York State Senate from 1854 to 1855, elected on the Hard and Temperance tickets in the First Senatorial District.

ources

* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/halsey.html] Political Graveyard (doubled entry)
* [http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E03E2D7153EE13AA15751C1A9679D946292D7CF] Election returns, in NYT on November 12, 1853
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA37 Google Book] "The New York Civil List" compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 37f, 278, 365 and 418; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=Sb1g8tno7OgC&pg=PA121&dq=hugh+halsey+assembly&lr=&hl=pt-BR&sig=ACfU3U2X8I2dYCbMszLJvmpSkVkiUE1w-g#PPA121,M1 "DeWitt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men"] by Craig Hanyan, Mary L. Hanyan (McGill-Queen's Press, 1996, ISBN 0773514341 , ISBN 9780773514348 , page 121


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