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{{Short description|American politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Horatio G. Knight
|image= Horatio Gates Knight.png
|caption=
|order= 30th
|office= Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
|term_start=
|term_end=
|governor= [[William Gaston
|predecessor= [[Thomas Talbot (Massachusetts politician)|Thomas Talbot]]
|successor= [[John Davis Long]]
|birth_date= {{birth date|1818|03|24}}
|birth_place= [[Easthampton, Massachusetts]]
|death_date= {{death date and age|1895|10|16|1818|03|24}}
|death_place= [[Northampton, Massachusetts]]
|party= [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|profession= Lieutenant Governor
|spouse= {{Marriage|Mary Ann Huntoon|1841}}
|footnotes=
}}
'''Horatio
==Life==
Horatio Knight was born in [[Easthampton, Massachusetts]] to Sylvester and Rachel (Lyman) Knight. He was educated in the local public schools, as well as by private tutors. At fourteen Knight was apprenticed into the retail establishment of Samuel Williston, whose principal business in Easthampton was the manufacture of buttons. Knight rose within Williston's businesses, becoming a full partner at age 24 and eventually president of the Williston and Knight Company. He also served as director of several area banks, as well as on the boards of area educational institutions and charities.<ref name=MenOfProgress>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5HFPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA408 |title=Men of Progress: One Thousand Biographical Sketches and Portraits of Leaders in Business and Professional Life in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts |editor-first=Edwin M. |editor-last=Bacon |editor-link=Edwin Munroe Bacon |publisher=New England Magazine |pages=408–409 |year=1896 |access-date=2020-12-10 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
Knight's political career began with election to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1852 as a [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig]], serving two terms. He next served two terms as state senator in 1858 and 1859, having joined the new [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. During the [[American Civil War]] he was tapped by Governor [[John Albion Andrew|John Andrew]] as the military draft commissioner for [[Hampshire County, Massachusetts|Hampshire County]]. In this role he relied on enlistments to fill the county's quotas for war duty, spending some of his fortune in the recruitment effort. In 1868 he was elected to the [[Massachusetts Governor's Council]], where he served two terms. In 1874 he was nominated by the party to be its candidate for lieutenant governor, and served for terms under Democrat [[William Gaston (Massachusetts politician)|William Gaston]] and Republican [[Alexander H. Rice]].<ref name=MenOfProgress/>
Knight married Mary Ann Huntoon in 1841; the couple had seven children, of which two died in infancy.<ref name=MenOfProgress/>
Horatio G. Knight died in [[Northampton, Massachusetts]] on October 16, 1895.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/65031731/ex-lieut-gov-dead/ |title=Ex-Lieut. Gov Dead |newspaper=[[Record-Journal]] |location=Northampton, Massachusetts |page=5 |date=1895-10-17 |access-date=2020-12-10 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
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==See also==
[[Category:Lieutenant Governors of Massachusetts|Knight, Horatio G.]]▼
* [[80th Massachusetts General Court (1859)]]
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[[Category:1818 births]]
[[Category:1895 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Easthampton, Massachusetts]]
[[Category:Massachusetts Republicans]]
[[Category:Massachusetts Whigs]]
[[Category:Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives]]
[[Category:Massachusetts state senators]]
[[Category:19th-century American politicians]]
[[Category:19th-century American businesspeople]]
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