Hastings was born in
Clinton, New York and attended the public schools. He graduated in law in 1826 from
Hamilton College in Clinton, New York. In 1830 he was
admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Mount Morris, New York.
Family Hastings married Mary H. Seymour in 1832 and in 1847, two years after being widowed, he married again this time to Chloe A. Parmele. He served as a district attorney from 1839 to 1848.
Congress Hastings was elected as a
Democrat to the
Thirty-Third Congress(March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855).
Later career and death Hastings was elected judge of the county court of
Livingston County and served from November 1855 until his death in Mount Morris, New York on August 29, 1866. He was interred in the city cemetery. ==References==