Abraham P. Grant | |
State: | New York |
Term Start: | March 4, 1837 |
Term End: | March 3, 1839 |
Predecessor: | Joel Turrill |
Successor: | John G. Floyd |
Birth Name: | Abraham Phineas Grant |
Birth Date: | 5 April 1804 |
Birth Place: | New Lebanon, New York, U.S. |
Death Place: | Oswego, New York, U.S. |
Resting Place: | Riverside Cemetery, Oswego, New York, U.S. |
Party: | Democratic |
Alma Mater: | Hamilton College |
Profession: | Politician, lawyer |
Abraham Phineas Grant (April 5, 1804 – December 11, 1871) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from New York from 1837 to 1839.
Born in New Lebanon, New York, Grant attended the public schools and graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. He then studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1828. He commenced practice in Oswego, New York, and served as district attorney of Oswego County in 1835.
Grant was elected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 – March 3, 1839). He resumed the practice of law.
He died in Oswego, New York, December 11, 1871. He was interred in Riverside Cemetery.