- Benjamin Gorham
Infobox_Congressman
name=Benjamin Gorham
state=Massachusetts
district=1st
term=November 6 ,1820 –March 3 ,1823 July 23 ,1827 –March 3 ,1831 March 4 ,1833 –March 3 ,1835
preceded=Jonathan Mason (1820)Daniel Webster (1827)Nathan Appleton (1833)
succeeded=Daniel Webster (1823)Nathan Appleton (1831)Abbott Lawrence (1835)
date of birth=birth date|1775|2|13|mf=y
place of birth=Charlestown, Boston, Massachusetts
date of death=death date and age|1855|9|27|1775|2|13|mf=y
place of death=Boston, Massachusetts
spouse=
profession=
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party=Democratic Republican and National Republican|Benjamin Gorham (
February 13 1775 –September 27 1855 ) was a U.S. Representative fromMassachusetts .He was the son of
Nathaniel Gorham , who served as one of thePresidents of the Continental Congress . Benjamin was born inCharlestown, Massachusetts . He pursued preparatory studies, graduated fromHarvard University in 1795, and studied law. When he was admitted to the bar he commenced practice inBoston . From 1814 to 1818 he served as a member of theMassachusetts House of Representatives and then turned to theMassachusetts State Senate , where he served fromMay 26 ,1819 until he resigned onJanuary 10 ,1821 . He was elected as aDemocratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofJonathan Mason ; he was re-elected when the term expired, and served untilMarch 3 1823 .Afterwards he returned to the State senate for one term beginning
May 28 1823 , before being elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation ofDaniel Webster and then reelected as anAnti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress and served fromJuly 23 1827 , toMarch 3 1831 . After a term filled byNathan Appleton , he was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-third Congress (March 4 1833 -March 3 1835 ). Afterward he served again a member of the State house of representatives in 1841 and resumed the practice of law.He died in Boston in 1855, aged 80, and was interred in the old burial ground of Phipps Street Cemetery in
Charlestown, Massachusetts .References
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