The Political Legacy Of Philip Hone: Federalist

Philip Hone was born on October 25th 1780 in Dutch Street, New York. Hone was an hard working individual who at seventeen years old started his mercantile career. He would later progress to the auction business and began to make most of his well from this partnership. Hone traveled to places such as Europe but then decided to return home to New York. This is when he was when he began his political career and elected as mayor in 1826 and served one term. Hone political identified as a federalist at first but then changed to the Whig Party.

Legacy
One of Philip Hone’s legacy includes his well written detailed diary. Hone was an greatly influential man that dedicated his to serve the great city of New York. Little did Hone knows that the
information his diary would be be immensely beneficial and referenced to today. He managed to capture one of the most, I believe, fastest change of New York City. Historians value his work and with it with other supporting documents we know what happens in the past. But one of the reasons why is diary is so special is because it contains the unfiltered and sometimes negative and the raw atmosphere New York had or resistants believed in. This is why something so unrefined and first hand proves why we should value it so highly, although we should keep in mind it may be potential biased.