Hiram Casey Young | |
State1: | Tennessee |
District1: | 10th |
Term Start1: | March 4, 1875 |
Term End1: | March 3, 1881 |
Predecessor1: | William T. Avery |
Successor1: | William R. Moore |
Term Start2: | March 4, 1883 |
Term End2: | March 3, 1885 |
Predecessor2: | William R. Moore |
Successor2: | Zachary Taylor |
Party: | Democrat |
Birth Date: | December 14, 1828 |
Birth Place: | Tuscaloosa, Alabama, U.S. |
Death Place: | Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. |
Profession: | lawyerpolitician |
Hiram Casey Young (December 14, 1828 – August 17, 1899) was an American lawyer and politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives for the 10th congressional district of Tennessee.
Young was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He moved with his parents to a farm near Byhalia, Mississippi, in 1838. He attended the local schools, was tutored by his father, and also the Cavalry.[1]
Elected as a Democrat to the Forty-fourth, Forty-fifth, and Forty-sixth Congresses, Young served from March 4, 1875, to March 3, 1881, but was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1880. However he was elected to the Forty-eighth, serving in that period from March 4, 1883, to March 3, 1885.[2] During this Forty-eighth Congress, he was the chairman of the United States House Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Interior. He was not a candidate for renomination, but resumed the practice of law.
Young died in Memphis, Tennessee, on August 17, 1899, aged 70. He is interred at Elmwood Cemetery.[3]