Political Editor and Congressman
After President Lincoln was assassinated in April, 1865, and Congress refused to seat any Representatives or Senators from the South until a reconstruction plan could be carried out. So, Senator-elect Hahn returned to New Orleans and allied himself with radical Republicans calling for a Convention to revise the Constitution of 1864 to include black suffrage. This led to his almost being killed on July 30, 1866 during a New Orleans Police riot.
Hahn subsequently became Editor and manager of the New Orleans Republican newspaper, and in 1872 he moved to a plantation in St. Charles Parish and established the village of Hahnville where he published the St. Charles Herald.
From 1871-1878 Hahn served in the state legislature. There he served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee and Speaker of the House. He was appointed Superintendent of the U. S. Mint in 1878, serving until January 1879. At that point, Hahn was appointed Judge of the 26th Judicial District which included Saint John the Baptist, Saint Charles and Jefferson parishes. In the 1880 elections, Hahn established and edited the New Orleans Ledger to promote Republican candidates, and in 1884 Hahn was elected to Congress as the Republican candidate for Louisiana's 2nd congressional district—a race which he won by 1,300 votes. Finally serving as a federal legislator from Louisiana, Hahn died on 1886 March 15 in his room at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, with a ruptured vessel near his heart. He was buried in New Orleans' Metairie Cemetery; he died poor and unmarried.
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