George Hastings
U.S. Congressperson
1807 – 1866
Who was George Hastings?
George Seymour Hastings was a U.S. Representative from New York.
Hastings was born in Clinton, New York and attended the public schools. He graduated in law in 1826 from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. In 1830 he was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Mount Morris, Livingston County, New York. He served as a district attorney from 1839 to 1848.
Hastings was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress.
Hastings was elected judge of the county court of Livingston County and served from November 1855 until his death in Mount Morris, New York on August 29, 1866. He was interred in the city cemetery.
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- Born
- Mar 13, 1807
- Profession
- Died
- Aug 29, 1866
Mount Morris
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on July 23, 2013
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