Seymour, Horatio
lawyer, state legislator, governor, was born May 31, 1810, in Pompey Hill, N. Y. He was a member of the New York state assembly in 1841; was mayor of Utica in 1842, and was speaker of the lower house of the legislature in 1845.
He was governor of New York from 1853 to 1855, and from 1863 to 1865.
In 1868 he was nominated for the presidency of the United States, but received only eighty electoral votes, and was defeated by General Grant.
He died Feb. 12, 1886, in Utica, N. Y.