Leverett Saltonstall I

Leverett Saltonstall, (great-grandfather of Leverett Saltonstall, 1892-1979), was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.He was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts, June 13, 1783. He pursued classical studies, attending Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1802. He studied law, and was admitted to the bar association and commenced practice in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1805.

Saltonstall, Nathaniel Bowditch and Dudley Leavitt Pickman all acted as trustees of the estate of Simon Forrester, a ship captain born in Ireland who became one of pioneers of Salem merchant shipping and one of Salem's leading merchants and philanthropists. [ [http://www.pem.org/museum/newmanuscripts8-08.pdf Dudley Leavitt Pickman Papers, Phillips Library Collection, Peabody Essex Museum, pem.org] ] [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=WG8MAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA82&dq=%22simon+forrester%22+salem&lr= Simon Forrester, Historical Collections of the Essex Institute, Vol. IV, G.M. Whipple & A.A. Smith, Salem, 1862] ]

Positions and offices

*A delegate to the State Constitutional Convention in in 1820.
*An unsuccessful candidate for election to the 17th United States Congress in 1820.
*A member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1813, 1814, 1816, 1822, 1829, 1834, and 1844.
*Served in the Massachusetts Senate, 1817-1819, 1831, and 1832, and was its president in 1831 and 1832.
*The first mayor of Salem, serving 1836-1838.
*Elected as a Whig to the 25th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Stephen C. Phillips, and then reelected to the Twenty-sixth and Twenty-seventh Congresses, serving from December 5, 1838, to March 3, 1843.
*Chairman for the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of the Navy (Twenty-sixth Congress).
*Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-seventh Congress).
*Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-eighth Congress.
*Overseer of Harvard University, 1835-1845.

Leverett Saltonstall died in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, May 8, 1845, and rests in Harmony Grove Cemetery.

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