George Gilbert Hoskins

{{Infobox officeholder

|name = George Gilbert Hoskins

|image = George Gilbert Hoskins - Brady-Handy.jpg

|office = Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from New York

|term_start = March 4, 1873

|term_end = March 3, 1877

|constituency = {{ushr|NY|30|30th district}} (1873–75)
{{ushr|NY|31|31st district}} (1875–77)

|predecessor = William Williams

|successor = Charles B. Benedict

|office3 = Lieutenant Governor of New York

|governor3 = Alonzo B. Cornell

|term_start3 = January 1, 1880

|term_end3 = December 31, 1882

|predecessor3 = William Dorsheimer

|successor3 = David B. Hill

|state_assembly4 = New York

|district4 = Wyoming

|term_start4 = January 1, 1865

|term_end4 = December 31, 1866

|preceded4 = Byron Healy

|succeeded4 = William Bristol

|term_start5 = January 1, 1860

|term_end5 = December 31, 1860

|preceded5 = Elias C. Holt

|succeeded5 = John J. Doolittle

|birth_date = {{birth date|1824|12|24}}

|birth_place = Bennington, New York, US

|death_date = {{Death date and age|1893|06|12|1824|12|24|mf=yes}}

|death_place = Attica, New York, US

|resting_place = Forest Hill Cemetery

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|party = Republican Party

|parents =

|spouse = Lois A. Hollenbeck Hoskins

|children =

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|religion =

|profession = Merchant
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George Gilbert Hoskins (December 24, 1824 – June 12, 1893) was an American politician who served as the lieutenant governor of New York and United States Representative for the state of New York.

Early life

Hoskins was born in Bennington, Wyoming County, New York. Raised on a farm, he attended the common schools and an academy, and at the age of seventeen, he began teaching school. When he was twenty-two, he engaged successfully in mercantile pursuits.{{cite book|last1=Barnes|first1=William Horatio|title=The American Government ...: Biographies of members of the House of representatives of the Forty-third Congress|year=1874|publisher=W.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1874|pages=141–142|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vN1m_ilxOr8C&pg=PA141 |access-date=27 June 2014}}

Career

For a number of years he was town clerk of Bennington and justice of the peace, and was a member of the New York State Assembly (Wyoming Co.) in 1860, 1865 and 1866; Hoskins was Speaker in 1865.{{cite web|title=George Gilbert Hoskins |url=http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=60&subjectID=51 |publisher=2002-2014 The Lincoln Institute |access-date=27 June 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306153631/http://www.mrlincolnandnewyork.org/inside.asp?ID=60&subjectID=51 |archive-date=6 March 2016 }} He was Postmaster of Bennington, NY, from 1849 to 1853 and from 1861 to 1866. In 1867, he moved to Attica, New York, where he was commissioner of public accounts from 1868 to 1870. On May 1, 1871, he was appointed as Collector of Internal Revenue for the 29th District of New York.{{cite book|last1=Herringshaw|first1=Thomas William|title=Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States; Illustrated with Three Thousand Vignette Portraits ...|year=1914|publisher=American Publishers' Association, 1914|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gRQ9AAAAYAAJ/page/n235 219]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_gRQ9AAAAYAAJ|quote=George Gilbert Hoskins.|access-date=27 June 2014}}

A Republican, Hoskins served as United States Representative from March 4, 1873, to March 3, 1875, for the 30th District of New York; and from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1877, for the 31st District of New York. He was Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1880 to 1882, elected at the New York state election, 1879.