was appointed by the President superintendent of the United States mint at New Orleans, which position he held until January, 1879.
In November, 1879, he was elected by an almost unanimous vote judge of the district composed of the parishes of Jefferson, Saint Charles, and Saint John, and was unanimously re-elected to that position in 1884. In November, 1884, he was the Republican nominee for Congress in the second Congressional district of the State. He had repeatedly refused the nomination, but toward the close of the campaign, two weeks before the election, being pressed to accept, he yielded and became a candidate. His election in a district usually Democratic by 3,000 majority attested his great popularly with the people in and out of his own political party.
In consequence of his election to Congress he resigned his judgeship in March, 1885, and was serving in Congress with usefulness to his State and credit to himself when stricken down by the icy hand of death.
It is thus seen that Michael Hahn had long been a conspicuous figure in the public and political affairs of Louisiana, and his career is one of which any man might well be proud.
Though an active, consistent Republican from the earliest days of that party's existence in the South, Governor Hahn always enjoyed the esteem and respect of even his bitterest political opponents. He was recognized as a man of unswerving integrity and sincere devotion to principle, and it was because of this that he was enabled to retain the respect and esteem of the people generally, notwithstanding his affiliation with a part) which had made itself justly odious in the State.
Of all the leading Republicans in Louisiana he was one of the least objectionable.
He was—
Said an editorial in a New Orleans paper, speaking of his death—
among the few men prominently connected with reconstruction who enjoyed the respect and esteem of the community, whose life was honorable, and whose record would bear scrutiny.
