Ebenezer Sage

Ebenezer Sage (August 16, 1775 - January 20, 1834) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Chatham, Connecticut (now Portland), he received his early education from a private tutor and was graduated from Yale College in 1778. He studied medicine, commenced practice in Easthampton, Suffolk County, New York in 1784. He moved to Sag Harbor about 1801 and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Eleventh, Twelfth, and Thirteenth Congresses, holding office from March 4, 1809 to March 3, 1815. He was not a candidate for reelection, and credentials of his election to the Sixteenth Congress were presented but he did not qualify, and on January 14, 1820, James Guyon, Jr. successfully contested his election. He resumed the practice of medicine at Sag Harbor and was a delegate to the New York constitutional convention of 1821. He died at Sag Harbor in 1834; original interment was in the Old Burying Ground and reinterment was in Oakland Cemetery.

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*Harmond, Richard. "Ebenezer Sage of Sag Harbor: An Old Republican in Young America, 1812-1834." New-York Historical Society Quarterly 57 (October 1973): 309-25
*Harmond, Richard J. "A Reluctant War Hawk: Ebenezer Sage of Sag Harbor, Long Island, and the Coming of the War of 1812." Journal of Long Island History 14 (Fall 1977): 48-53.