{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Seth Hastings | honorific_suffix = | image = File:Seth Hastings.jpg | alt = | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = August 24, 1801 | term_end1 = March 3, 1807 | predecessor1 = [[Levi Lincoln Sr.]] | successor1 = [[Jabez Upham]] | constituency1 = [[Massachusetts's 4th congressional district|4th district]] (1801–03)<br>[[Massachusetts's 10th congressional district|10th district]] (1803–07) | birth_date = {{birth date|1762|4|7}} | birth_place = [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1831|11|19|1762|4|7}} | death_place = [[Mendon, Massachusetts|Mendon]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | spouse = | party = [[Federalist Party|Federalist]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | occupation = Lawyer | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Seth Hastings''' (April 8, 1762 – November 19, 1831) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]]. Born in [[Cambridge, Massachusetts|Cambridge]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] to Seth and Hannah (Soden) Hastings, he was a descendant of the colonist [[Thomas Hastings (colonist)|Thomas Hastings]] who came from the [[East Anglia]] region of England to the [[Massachusetts Bay Colony]] in 1634. He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1782, studied law, was admitted to the [[bar (law)|bar]] in 1786 and commenced practice in [[Mendon, Massachusetts]]. He was town treasurer in 1794 and 1795, and was elected one of the first school commissioners in 1796.
Hastings was elected as a [[USFederalist|Federalist]] to the Seventh Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of [[Levi Lincoln Sr.|Levi Lincoln]]. He was reelected to the Eighth and Ninth Congresses and served from August 24, 1801, to March 3, 1807. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1806 and was a member of the [[Massachusetts State Senate]] in 1810 and 1814. From 1819 to 1828, he was [[chief justice]] of the [[State court (United States)|court of sessions]] for [[Worcester County, Massachusetts|Worcester County]]. Hastings died in Mendon; interment was in the Old Cemetery.
==Legacy== Hastings' son, [[William Soden Hastings]], also represented Massachusetts in the House of Representatives.
==References== {{CongBio|H000331}} *Buckminster, Lydia N. H., ''The Hastings Memorial, A Genealogical Account of the Descendants of Thomas Hastings of Watertown, Mass. from 1634 to 1864'', Boston: Samuel G. Drake Publisher (an undated NEHGS photoduplicate of the 1866 edition).
==External links== * [http://www.thomas-hastings.org Descendants of Thomas Hastings website] * [https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Descendants-of-Thomas-Hastings-c1605-1685/73420529952 Descendants of Thomas Hastings on Facebook] *{{Find a Grave|7499284}} * [https://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/med00212/catalog Seth Hastings and Seth Hastings, Jr. commonplace books, medical records, and papers, 1772-1830 (inclusive), undated. H MS c292. Harvard Medical Library, Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Boston, Mass.]
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