Albert Haight

Albert Haight (February 20, 1842 Ellicottville, Cattaraugus County, New York - October 1926) was an American lawyer and politician from New York.

Life

He was the son of Henry Haight (b. ca. 1815) and Sarah Maria (Sisson) Haight (1817-1868). He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and practiced in Buffalo, New York.

He was Judge of the Erie County Court from 1873 to 1877. He was a Justice of the New York Supreme Court (8th District) from 1877 to 1894, of the General Term, Fifth Department, since 1884.

In 1887, he made a controversial decision in a trial involving Standard Oil and John D. Archbold, and was severely censured in the press for it. Subsequently Standard Oil pushed his campaign for the Court of Appeals, but it did not work out. In 1889, he ran on the Republican ticket for the New York Court of Appeals but was defeated by Democrat Denis O'Brien.

In 1894, he ran again and this time was elected. He was re-elected in 1908, and retired from the bench at the end of 1912 when he reached the constitutional age limit of 70 years.

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