Henry Hogeboom, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Henry Hogeboom

American politician

Date of Birth: 25-Feb-1809

Date of Death: 12-Sep-1872

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Henry Hogeboom

  • Henry Hogeboom (February 25, 1809 – September 12, 1872) was a judge who served on the New York Supreme Court from 1858 until his death.
  • Prior to being elected to the bench, Hogeboom served as a member of the New York State Assembly, representing Columbia County.Hogeboom was the son of John C.
  • and Margaret (Styck) Hogeboom, of Ghent, Columbia Co., N, Y., and was bom at Claverack in that county, Feb.
  • 25th, 1809.
  • He graduated from Yale College in 1827.
  • After completing his academical course, he began the study of law in the office of his brother-in-law, Abraham Van Buren, in Ghent, where he continued until the following spring, when he entered for one year the office of Powers & Day, in Catskill.
  • He was afterwards in the office of Campbell Bushnell, of Hudson, N.Y., and was admitted to the bar in the summer of 1830.
  • From that date he practiced his profession in Hudson until elected a Judge of the Supreme Court of the State in 1857, which office he held at the time of his death.
  • In 1836 he was appointed by Gov.
  • Enos T.
  • Throop Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for his native county, and served for two or three years, when he resigned.
  • In 1839, he was a prominent member of the General Assembly of the State.
  • He received the degree of LL.D.
  • from Rutgers College in 1870. Judge Hogeboom married, in Nov., 1832, Miss Jane Eliza, daughter of Col.
  • James Rivington, of Poughkeepsie, N.
  • Y.
  • She died March 25, 1858.
  • He died Sept.
  • 12th, 1872, at his residence in Hudson.
  • He had been failing in health for some months, from over-work. Historian Edward J.
  • Renehan, Jr.
  • has referred to Hogeboom as a "Tammany judge" This article incorporates public domain material from the Yale Obituary Record.

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