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3 unusual facts about Waldo Hutchins


Waldo Hutchins

He was reelected to the Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses and served from November 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885.

Born in Brooklyn, Connecticut, Hutchins was graduated from Amherst (Massachusetts) College in 1842.

Hutchins was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-sixth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alexander Smith.


Abraham B. Tappen

He was a New York City Park Commissioner from 1891 to 1895, appointed by Mayor Hugh J. Grant to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Waldo Hutchins, and re-appointed to a full five-year term, but removed from office by Mayor William L. Strong.


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