Calvin T. Hulburd
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Calvin Tilden Hulburd was a United States Representative from New York
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 during the American Civil War
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The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 and Reconstruction.

Biography

Born in Stockholm
Stockholm, New York
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, St. Lawrence County
St. Lawrence County, New York
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, he completed preparatory studies and graduated from Middlebury College
Middlebury College
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 in Vermont
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. He attended Yale College
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 Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1833, and was a member of the New York State Assembly
New York State Assembly
The New York State Assembly is the lower house of the New York State Legislature. The Assembly is composed of 150 members representing an equal number of districts, with each district having an average population of 128,652...

 from 1842 to 1844 and in 1862.

Hulburd was elected as a Republican
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 to the Thirty-eighth, Thirty-ninth, and Fortieth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1863 to March 3, 1869; while in the House he was chairman of the Committee on Public Expenditures (Thirty-eighth through Fortieth Congresses). He was superintendent of construction of the New York post office, and in 1897 died in Brasher Falls, New York. Interment was in Fairview Cemetery.
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