Gideon Hiram Hollister

Gideon Hiram Hollister (December 14, 1817 – March 24, 1881) was an American politician, diplomat, and author.

He began practice in Woodbury, Conn., but soon removed to Litchfield, where, in 1843, he was appointed Clerk of the Court, an office which he held—a single year excepted—until 1852.

He then resumed the practice of law, in company with his brother in Bridgeport, Conn, but in 1876 returned to Litchfield.

In June 1847, he married Mary S. Brisbane, a native of Charleston, South Carolina, who survived him with one only of their four children.

He also published, in 1851, an historical romance, entitled Mount Hope, or Philip, King of the Wampanoags, which his maturer judgment disapproved as too florid in style, and a tragic poem, in 1866, entitled Thomas a Becket, which was dramatized and played by Edwin Booth, besides other minor poems.