Hugh Halsey (June 26, 1794 – May 29, 1858) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.
Life He was the son of Dr. Stephen Halsey, Jr., and Hamutal (Howell) Halsey (ca. 1762-1848). He graduated from Yale College. Then he studied law with Franklin Viele in Waterford, New York, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Madison County, New York.
Halsey was a member of the New York State Assembly (Suffolk Co.) in 1822 and 1824. He was Surrogate of Suffolk County from 1827 to 1840; and First Judge of the County Court from 1833 to 1847. He was a presidential elector in 1844, voting for James K. Polk and George M. Dallas. Halsey was New York State Surveyor General from 1845 until the end of 1847.
He was a member of the New York State Senate (1st D.) in 1854 and 1855, elected on the Hard and Temperance tickets.
Halsey was the father of James M. Halsey, a member of the New York State Assembly.
He died on May 29, 1858, in Bridgehampton, New York.
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Sources STATE ELECTION; THE LATEST RETURNS in NYT on November 12, 1853 The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 37f, 278, 365 and 418; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) DeWitt Clinton and the Rise of the People's Men by Craig Hanyan, Mary L. Hanyan (McGill-Queen's Press, 1996, , ; page 121)