Life

He lived in Buffalo, New York

Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second most populous city in the state of New York, after New York City. Located in Western New York on the eastern shores of Lake Erie and at the head of the Niagara River across from Fort Erie, Ontario, Buffalo is the seat of Erie County and the principal city of the...

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In November 1846, he was elected on the Democratic and Anti-Rent

Anti-Rent War

The Anti-Rent War was a tenants' revolt in upstate New York during the early 19th century, beginning with the death of Stephen Van Rensselaer III in 1839....

 tickets a canal commissioners

Erie Canal Commission

The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission...

. 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.

Jonas Earll, Jr.

Jonas Earll, Jr. was an American politician. He was a U.S. Representative from New York from 1827 to 1831.-Life:...

 had died, and Hudson was appointed on December 3, 1846, by Governor Silas Wright

Silas Wright

Silas Wright, Jr. was an American Democratic politician. Wright was born in Amherst, Massachusetts and moved with his father to Weybridge, Vermont in 1796. He graduated from Middlebury College in 1815 and moved to Sandy Hill, New York, the next year, where he studied law, being admitted to the bar...

 to fill the vacancy and remained in office until the end of 1847.

In 1854, he was appointed by President Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce

Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

 Collector of Customs at Buffalo.

He was a delegate to the 1860 Democratic National Convention

1860 Democratic National Convention

The 1860 Democratic National Convention was one of the crucial events in the lead-up to the American Civil War. Following a fragmented official Democratic National Convention that was adjourned in deadlock, two more presidential nominating conventions took place: a resumed official convention,...

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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
  Sylvanus H. Sweet
  Sylvanus Howe Sweet was an American civil engineer and politician from New York. He was New York State Engineer and Surveyor from 1874 to 1875.-Life:...
  
   (Van Benthuysen, 1863; page 257)
• http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=950CE1DB1538EE3BBC4053DFB466838F649FDE Appointed collector, in NYT on February 8, 1854
• U.S. House Documents (1857-58; page 150)
• http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/hudson.html Political Graveyard
• http://www.allentown.org/Streets/Hudson/ Possible namesake for Hudson Street in Allentown, Buffalo, New York
  Allentown, Buffalo, New York
  The Allentown district is a neighborhood in Buffalo, New York. The neighborhood is home to the Allentown Historic District.-Geography:Allentown is the first neighborhood north of the Downtown Buffalo core. It borders the downtown theater and entertainment district to its south, and runs north to...