Theodore Lyman (militiaman)

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order =5th
office =Mayor of Boston, Massachusetts
term_start =1834
term_end =1835
predecessor =Charles Wells
successor =Samuel T. Armstrong
birth_date =1792 (aged 57?)
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death_date =1849
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alma_mater =Harvard University
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Theodore Lyman II (1792-1849) was an American philanthropist, politician, and author, born in Boston. He graduated at Harvard in 1810, visited Europe (1812-14), studied law, and with Edward Everett, revisited Europe in 1817-19. From 1819 to 1822 he was aiddecamp to the Governor of Massachusetts and became brigadier general of militia in 1823, from 1820 to 1825 he served in the State Legislature, and from 1834 to 1835 he was mayor of Boston. He was a steadfast opponent of the radical Abolitionists, and in August, 1835, presided over a pro-slavery meeting in Boston; though a few weeks later, during an antiAbolitionist riot, he rescued William Lloyd Garrison from the mob and confined him to jail to save his life. He was a liberal benefactor of the State Horticultural Society and of the Farm School and was the founder of the Lyman School for Boys, a reform school to which, altogether, he gave $72,000. He published:
* "Three Weeks in Paris" (1814)
* "The Political State of Italy" (1820)
* "Account of the Hartford Convention" (1823); in which he defended those who were concerned in that convention as an expression of harbored hatred fo both Presidents, John Adams and J.Q. Adams. (SEE Essex Junto)
* "The Diplomacy of the United States with Foreign Nations" (1828); a work which is still valuable for the period covered.

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