Paine Wingate

Infobox Senator
name = Paine Wingate


imagesize=150px
jr/sr =United States Senator
state = New Hampshire
term_start = March 4, 1789
term_end = March 3, 1793
preceded = (none)
succeeded = Samuel Livermore
office2=Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's At-large district (Seat 4)
term_start2=March 4, 1793
term_end2=March 3, 1795
predecessor2=(none)
successor2=Abiel Foster
date of birth=birth date|1739|5|14|mf=y
place of birth=Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay
dead = dead
date of death=death date and age|1838|3|7|1739|5|14
place of death=Stratham, New Hampshire
residence=Stratham
spouse=
profession=
religion=Calvinism
alma_mater=Harvard University
party=Anti-Administration|

Paine Wingate (14 May 1739– 7 March 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire. He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.

Wingate was born in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1739. His father (also Paine) was a minister there. He was graduated from Harvard College in 1759 and was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1763. He became a pastor in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.

In 1776 Wingate gave up his ministry and moved to Stratham, where he took up farming. He was elected to several terms in New Hampshire's state house of representatives, and was a delegate to their state constitutional convention in 1781.

In 1788, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. New Hampshire appointed him to the first United States Senate, in which he served from 4 March 1789 until 3 March 1793. He was then elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795.

After his national service, he served as an associate justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court from 1798 to 1808. When he died at age 98 in 1838, he was the last surviving delegate to the Continental Congress and the last surviving member of the first United States Senate. For several years he had been the oldest graduate of Harvard. Wingate is buried in the Stratham Cemetery.

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