US Congressman, Entrepreneur. He was a United States Representative from the State of Massachusetts. He was born one of eleven children to Captain Jeduthan Abbott (1748-1810), and his wife Hannah Poor Abbott (1754-1823), in Andover, Massachusetts, on September 10, 1786. He was educated locally and attended the prestigious Bradford Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. Following his education, he worked in mercantile pursuits, as a business executive, and as a highway surveyor. He also served his native Andover, Massachusetts, in local public offices including as Market Clerk from 1819 to 1822, as Town Clerk in 1822, and again in 1826 and 1828, as Town Treasurer from 1824 to 1829, and as a Member of the School Committee from 1828 to 1829, and again in 1830. He was also one of the founders of the Boston & Portland Railway, which later changed its name to the Boston & Maine Railroad (which was a U.S. Class I railroad in northern New England), and served as its Director from 1834 to 1841. He was also elected and served two terms as a Member of the Massachusetts State House of Representatives from 1835 to 1837, and again in 1843, and one term as a Member of the Massachusetts State Senate from 1840 to 1842. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States Congress and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), on March 4, 1843. A Member of the Whig Party, he then served Massachusetts' 3rd District (Twenty-Eighth Congress, Twenty-Ninth Congress, and Thirtieth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1843, to March 3, 1849. He was not a Candidate for reelection in 1848. Following his term in the United States Congress, he was succeeded in office by the incoming United States Representative James Henry Duncan (1793-1869), on March 4, 1849. After leaving the United States Congress, he served as a postmaster in his native Andover, Massachusetts, and resumed his mercantile pursuits until his death. He passed away from "old age" in Andover, Massachusetts, on November 2, 1868, at the age of 82, and he was buried in South Church Cemetery in Andover, Massachusetts. He was married to Esther Mackey West Abbott (1793-1850), on December 6, 1812, with whom he had four children including, Emma Frances Abbott Joyslin (-1888), Alfred James Abbott (1820-1884), William A. Abbott (1831-1898), and Sarah B. Abbott Atwood (1838-1891).