- Benjamin Adams
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name= Hon. Benjamin Adams,United States Representative 1816-1821
born= Birth date|1764|12|16
died= death date and age|1837|3|28|1764|12|16
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occupation =United States Congressman ,
birth_date = birth date|1764|12|16|mf=y
birth_place = Mendon,Massachusetts Colony ,England
death_date = Death date and age|1837|03|28|1764|12|16
death_place =Uxbridge, Massachusetts
occupation = state legislator, State Senator,Lawyer ,Politician
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children =Benjamin Adams (
December 16 ,1764 -March 28 ,1837 ) was an American lawyer and politician. Adams was born inMendon, Massachusetts in 1764. Benjamin Adams grew up in Mendon, which was then a rural agricultural community. He was well educated by existing public schools in that community.College and practice of law
He graduated from
Brown University inProvidence, Rhode Island in 1788, where he studied law. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar, and began the practice of the law inUxbridge, Massachusetts .Political career
He was elected to the
Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1809, later winning election to theMassachusetts Senate in 1814 through 1815. In 1816, he was elected to theUnited States House of Representatives from Massachusetts, serving in that body until 1821. He was then reelected to theMassachusetts State Senate , and served there through 1825.Death and afterwards
He died in Uxbridge in 1837. The Benjamin Adams House is on the
National Register of Historic Places in Uxbridge. The house is located at 85 North Main Street, near the "Uxbridge Common Historic District". Benjamin Adams is buried in the Prospect Hill Cemetery, next to the historic Capron Mill in downtown Uxbridge. Another elected Congressman is buried here,Phineas Bruce , as well as aMedal of Honor recipient from this town,Corporal Edward Sullivan . Benjamin Adams would have seen the early history and successes of the adjacent Capron Mill, and the beginnings of our nation's industrialization which occurred here. On July 21, 2007, the historic Capron Mill, later known as theBernat Mill , was burned in a spectacular ten-alarm fire. A housing development and street there is named in his honor today.External links
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List of Registered Historic Places in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
*Benjamin Adams House References
*"Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896." Chicago: Marquis Who's Who, 1963.USRepSuccessionBox
state=Massachusetts
district=11
before=Elijah Brigham
after=Johnathan Russell
years=December 2 ,1816 -March 3 ,1821
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