U.S. Congressman. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Harvard University in 1799, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced to practice law in Kennebunk, Maine, then a district of Massachusetts. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional conventions, (1816, 1819). In 1820, he was elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Holmes, a Representative from Massachusetts but residing in the new State of Maine, thus he became the first Representative from Maine and was reelected as a Federalist to the Seventeenth Congress, serving until 1823. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he was member of the Maine House of Representatives (1824-25, 1832-33, 1839-40) and served in the Maine State Senate in 1829. He died at age 79 in Kennebunk, Maine.
U.S. Congressman. Born in Beverly, Massachusetts, he attended Phillips Academy, graduated from Harvard University in 1799, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1802 and commenced to practice law in Kennebunk, Maine, then a district of Massachusetts. He was a delegate to the Massachusetts constitutional conventions, (1816, 1819). In 1820, he was elected as a Federalist to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of John Holmes, a Representative from Massachusetts but residing in the new State of Maine, thus he became the first Representative from Maine and was reelected as a Federalist to the Seventeenth Congress, serving until 1823. Not a candidate for re-nomination, he was member of the Maine House of Representatives (1824-25, 1832-33, 1839-40) and served in the Maine State Senate in 1829. He died at age 79 in Kennebunk, Maine.
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