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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyAugustus Albert HARDENBERGH
(1830-1889)
HARDENBERGH, Augustus
Albert, a Representative from New Jersey; born in New
Brunswick, Middlesex County, N.J., May 18, 1830; attended Rutgers
College, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1844; took up residence in Jersey
City in 1846 and was employed in a banking house in New York City;
clerk in the Hudson County National Bank in 1852; member of the
State house of assembly in 1853 and 1854; member of the board of
education in 1855 and 1856; member of the common council of Jersey
City 1857-1863, serving as president in 1860; moved to Bergen,
N.J., in 1863; member of the city council of Bergen; elected State
director of railroads in 1868; moved to Demarest, N.J., the same
year; delegate to the Democratic National Convention in 1872; moved
to Jersey City in 1873; elected president of the Northern Railroad
of New Jersey in 1874; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth
and Forty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1875-March 3, 1879); declined
to be a candidate for renomination in 1878; elected president of
the Hudson County National Bank in 1878; elected to the
Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881-March 3, 1883); was not a
candidate for renomination in 1882; appointed a member of the
Jersey City Board of Finance and Taxation in 1883-1889; appointed
by Governor Abbett as a trustee of the State reform school in 1884;
died in Jersey City, N.J., on October 5, 1889; interment in Mount
Pleasant Cemetery, Newark, N.J.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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