John T. Hudson

For persons with a similar name, see John Hudson.

John T. Hudson (1811 – April 16, 1887) was an American politician from New York.

Life

In November 1846, he was elected on the Democratic and Anti-Rent tickets a canal commissioners. Under the Act of May 6, 1844, there were two canal commissioners to be elected to a four-year term beginning on February 1, 1847, but at the same State election the voters ratified the New York State Constitution of 1846 which extended the terms of the incumbent commissioners until the end of 1847, calling for a new election in November 1847. Thus Hudson could not take office for his elected term. However, shortly before the State election, Commissioner Jonas Earll, Jr. had died, and Hudson was appointed on December 3, 1846, by Governor Silas Wright to fill the vacancy and remained in office until the end of 1847.

In 1854, he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce Collector of Customs at Buffalo.

He was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention.

Sources

The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 42; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858)
The election in 1846, in Political History of the State of New York from January 1, 1841, to January 1, 1847, Vol III, including The Life of Silas Wright by Jabez Delano Hammond (L. W. Hall, Syracuse NY, 1849; page 689)
Documentary Sketch of New York State Canals by Sylvanus H. Sweet (Van Benthuysen, 1863; page 257)
[1] Appointed collector, in NYT on February 8, 1854
U.S. House Documents (1857–58; page 150)
[2] Political Graveyard
[3] Possible namesake for Hudson Street in Allentown, Buffalo, New York