Ransom Halloway
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Ransom Halloway was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Beekman
, Dutchess County
, he engaged in agricultural pursuits and was brigade paymaster
of the New York Militia in 1818.
Halloway was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress, holding office from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851. He died in Mount Pleasant
in 1851.
Beekman, New York
Beekman is a town in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is part of the Poughkeepsie–Newburgh–Middletown, NY Metropolitan Statistical Area as well as the larger New York–Newark–Bridgeport, NY-NJ-CT-PA Combined Statistical Area. The population was 11,452 at the 2000...
, Dutchess County
Dutchess County, New York
Dutchess County is a county located in the U.S. state of New York, in the state's Mid-Hudson Region of the Hudson Valley. The 2010 census lists the population as 297,488...
, he engaged in agricultural pursuits and was brigade paymaster
Paymaster
A paymaster often is, but is not required to be, a lawyer . When dealing with commission payments on contracts dealing with large amounts of money , most banks in the United States are very wary of handling such large amounts of money...
of the New York Militia in 1818.
Halloway was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-first Congress, holding office from March 4, 1849 to March 3, 1851. He died in Mount Pleasant
Mount Pleasant, New York
Mount Pleasant is a town in Westchester County, New York, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the town population was 43,724.-Geography:...
in 1851.