George Hastings (March 13, 1807 – August 29, 1866) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1853 to 1855.
Hastings married Mary H. Seymour in 1832 and in 1847, two years after being widowed, he married again this time to Chloe A. Parmele. He served as a district attorney from 1839 to 1848.
Congressedit
Hastings was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855).
Later career and deathedit
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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