Jeremiah Nelson

Infobox Congressman
name =Jeremiah Nelson


state =Massachusetts
district =3rd
term_start =March 4, 1805
term_end =March 3, 1807
March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1825
March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833
preceded =Manasseh Cutler (1805)
Timothy Pickering (1815)
John Varnum (1825)
succeeded =Edward St. Loe Livermore (1807)
John Varnum (1825)
Gayton P. Osgood (1833)
birth_date =September 14, 1769
birth_place =Rowley, Massachusetts
death_date =October 2, 1838
death_place =Newburyport, Massachusetts
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Republican
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Jeremiah Nelson, was a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Rowley, Essex County, Massachusetts, September 14, 1769. He graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1790. He engaged in the mercantile business in Newburyport, Essex County, Massachusetts. He was a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1803 and 1804, was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-March 3, 1807); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1806 to the Tenth Congress. In 1811, he served as chairman board of selectmen of Newburyport. He was again elected to the Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from (March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1825). During the (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses) he was chairman, Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress. He served as president of the Newburyport Mutual Fire Co. in 1829. He returned to Congress as an Anti-Jacksonian for the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1832. After leaving politics, he engaged in the shipping business. Nelson died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, October 2, 1838, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

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