Elijah H. Mills

Infobox_Senator
name= Elijah Hunt Mills


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jr/sr and state= United States Senator
from Massachusetts
term= June 12, 1820-March 3, 1827
preceded= Prentiss Mellen
succeeded= Daniel Webster
date of birth= birth date|1776|12|1|mf=y
place of birth= Chesterfield, Massachusetts
date of death= death date and age|1829|5|5|1776|12|1|mf=y
place of death= Northampton, Massachusetts
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profession= Lawyer
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party= Federalist|

Elijah Hunt Mills (1776-1829) was an American politician from Massachusetts.

Mills was born in Chesterfield, Massachusetts, on December 1, 1776. He was educated by private tutors and graduated from Williams College in 1797. Mills studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Northampton, Massachusetts. He was the district attorney for Hampshire County, Massachusetts, and opened a law school in Northampton in 1823.

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1811-1814). Mills was elected as a Federalist to the United States House of Representatives (March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1819). In 1819 he returned to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he became Speaker of the House in 1820. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1820 to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Prentiss Mellen. Mills was reelected and served from June 12, 1820, to March 3, 1827. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1826. He retired from public life due to ill health.

Mills died in Northampton on May 5, 1829, and was interred in the Bridge Street Cemetery.

Legacy

One of Mills' daughters, Harriette Blake Mills, married Admiral Charles Henry Davis. One of their daughters, Anna Cabot Mills Davis, married U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. One of their sons, poet George Cabot Lodge, was the father of U.S. Senators Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. and John Davis Lodge. Another of Mills' daughters, Sarah Hunt Mills, married Benjamin Peirce, the father of Charles Peirce. [Adams, Henry. "The Life of George Cabot Lodge". pg. 4-5. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1911]

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