Albert Haight (February 20, 1842 – October 1926) was an American lawyer and politician from

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Life

He was born on February 20, 1842, in Ellicottville,

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, the son of Henry Haight (born c. 1815) and Sarah Maria (Sisson) Haight (1817–1868). He was admitted to the bar in 1863, and practiced in Buffalo. He was Judge of the Erie County Court from 1873 to 1877. He was a justice of the

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(8th D.) from 1877 to 1894, and was appointed to the General Term (5th Dept.) in 1884. In 1887, he made a controversial decision in a trial involving

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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. At the New York state election, 1889, he ran on the Republican ticket for the

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but was defeated by Democrat

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. At the New York state election, 1894, he ran again and this time was elected. He was re-elected at the New York state election, 1908, and retired from the bench at the end of 1912 when he reached the constitutional age limit. He died in October 1926.''JUDGE ALBERT HAIGHT DEAD AT AGE OF 84''
in ''The New York Times'' on October 7, 1926 (subscription required)

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