- William Plumer, Jr.
William Plumer, Jr. (
February 9 ,1789 -September 18 ,1854 ) was a U.S. Representative fromNew Hampshire , son ofWilliam Plumer .Born in Epping, Plumer attended
Phillips Exeter Academy ,Exeter, New Hampshire . He graduated fromHarvard University ,Cambridge, Massachusetts , in 1809, and started his career as a lawyer in private practice and as an author. He was United States commissioner of loans in 1816 and 1817.Plumer served as member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1818 and as a member of theNew Hampshire Senate from 1827 to 1828. He served as member of the New Hampshire state constitutional convention in 1850.Plumer was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (
March 4 ,1819 -March 3 ,1825 ). He served as chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary (Seventeenth Congress).He died in
Epping, New Hampshire ,September 18 ,1854 . He was interred in the family burial ground on his father's estate near Epping.References
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