Horace Green Hutchins was a Massachusetts

Massachusetts

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States of America. It is bordered by Rhode Island and Connecticut to the south, New York to the west, and Vermont and New Hampshire to the north; at its east lies the Atlantic Ocean. As of the 2010...

 politician who served as the seventh mayor of Charlestown, Massachusetts.

Early life and education

Hutchins was born in Bath, New Hampshire

Bath, New Hampshire

Bath is a town in Grafton County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 1,077 at the 2010 census. Now a tourist destination and bedroom community for Littleton, the town is noted for its historic architecture, including the Brick Store and three covered bridges...

 on July 20, 1811 to Hon. Samuel and Rosanna (Childs) Hutchins. Hutchins graduated from Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy

Phillips Exeter Academy is a private secondary school located in Exeter, New Hampshire, in the United States.Exeter is noted for its application of Harkness education, a system based on a conference format of teacher and student interaction, similar to the Socratic method of learning through asking...

 in 1830. He then attended Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...

, where he graduated with an A.M. degree in 1835. Hutchins studied law with Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate

Rufus Choate , American lawyer and orator, was born in Ipswich, Massachusetts, a descendant of an English family which settled in Massachusetts in 1643. His first cousin, physician George Choate, was the father of George C. S. Choate and Joseph Hodges Choate...

 and at Harvard

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

. In October 1839 Hutchins was admitted to the Massachusetts bar. On October 22, 1844 Hutchins married Julia Hanna Hurd, the daughter of John Hurd of Boston.

Political offices

Hutchens was elected to represent Chalestown's Ward 1 in the city's Common Council for the term beginning 1854, he served as a member of the Common Council from 1854 to 1857. Hutchens served as President of the Charlestown Common Council from 1855 to 1857, Hutchins was the mayor of Charlestown in 1861.