Giles Waldo Hotchkiss (October 25, 1815 – July 5, 1878) was a

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from New York during the

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Biography

Born in

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, Hotchkiss attended the

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, and Oxford Academy. He studied law. He was

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in 1837 and began practice in

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. He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1860. Hotchkiss was elected as a

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to the Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1863 – March 3, 1867). He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1866. Hotchkiss was elected to the Forty-first Congress (March 4, 1869 – March 3, 1871). He was not a candidate for renomination. He resumed the practice of law in Binghamton, where he died July 5, 1878. He was interred in Spring Forest Cemetery.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hotchkiss, Giles Waldo 1815 births 1878 deaths People of New York (state) in the American Civil War Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American politicians People from Windsor, New York People from Binghamton, New York