Serranus Clinton Hastings was an American politician, rancher, and lawyer in California. Born in Watertown, New York, he studied law as a young man and moved to the Iowa District in 1837 to open a law office. Iowa became a territory a year later, and he was elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Iowa Territorial General Assembly. When the territory became the state of Iowa in 1846, he won an election to represent the state in the United States House of Representatives. After his term ended, he became Chief Justice of the Iowa Supreme Court.
- Occupation
- politician, lawyer, judge
- Position held
- United States representative
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
