Abraham Lent (February 12, 1815 New York City – November 23, 1882) was an American politician from New York.
Life
He was the son of Peter Waldron Lent (born 1786) and Catherine S. (Forbes) Lent. He studied law for a time, but abandoned this, and became a merchant instead. On July 11, 1836, he married Susan Cooper (1816–1881), and they had two children. In 1850, he became a partner in a clothing manufacturing company.
He was a member of the
Board of Councilmen (6th D.) in 1859, 1860, 1861, 1862 and 1865.
He was a member of the
New York State Senate
The New York State Senate is the upper house of the New York State Legislature; the New York State Assembly is its lower house. Its members are elected to two-year terms; there are no term limits. There are 63 seats in the Senate.
Partisan com ...
(6th D.) in
1866
Events January–March
* January 1
** Fisk University, a historically black university, is established in Nashville, Tennessee.
** The last issue of the abolitionist magazine '' The Liberator'' is published.
* January 6 – Ottoman tr ...
and
1867
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...
.
Sources
''The New York Civil List''compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 444)
''Life Sketches of the State Officers, Senators, and Members of the Assembly of the State of New York, in 1867''by S. R. Harlow & H. H. Boone (pg. 112ff)
''History of the Lent (van Lent) Family in the United States, Genealogical and Biographical''by Nelson Burt Lent (1903)
''Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York''by D. T. Valentine (1865; pg. 479)
''OBITUARY; ABRAHAM LENT''in NYT on November 24, 1882
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1815 births
1882 deaths
Republican Party New York (state) state senators
New York City Council members
19th-century American legislators