Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck was a United States Congressman from New York and the sixth President of Rutgers College serving from 1840 to 1850. He was a slaveholder.
Occupation
politician, lawyer
Position held
United States representative, President of Rutgers University
Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck (November 29, 1791 – February 23, 1879) was a United States Congressman from New York and the sixth President of Rutgers College (now Rutgers University) serving from 1840 to 1850. He was a slaveholder.
Biography
He was born in 1791 in Kingston, New York, to Jonathan Hasbrouck (1763–1846) and Catherine Wynkoop (1763–1846).
He studied at the Kingston Academy in Kingston, New York before entering Yale College where he graduated in 1810. Studying the law under Tapping Reeve, Elisha Williams, and James Gould, he returned to Kingston, New York, in 1814 to practice law. In 1817 he started a law practice with Charles H. Ruggles.
He married on September 12, 1819, to Julia Frances Ludlum (1795–1869), the sister of Judge Gabriel W. Ludlum. Together they had eight children, including a son: Jonathan Howard Bruyn Hasbrouck (1820–1899), and a daughter, Caroline Hone Hasbrouck (1830-1898), who married George H. Sharpe, also a Hasbrouck descendant.
