Abijah Bigelow

Abijah Bigelow

Abijah Bigelow (born December 5, 1775 in Westminster , Worcester County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  April 5, 1860 in Worcester , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1810 and 1815 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Abijah Bigelow attended the Leicester Academy and a school in New Ipswich ( New Hampshire ). He then studied until 1795 at Dartmouth College in Hanover . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1798, he began to work in this profession in Leominster . Between 1803 and 1809 he was employed as a town clerk by the city of Leominster. Politically, he became a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton in the late 1790s . From 1807 to 1809 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives . From 1809 until his death he also served as a justice of the peace.

After the resignation of MP William Stedman , Bigelow was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC at the by-election due for the eleventh seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on October 8, 1810. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1815 . These were shaped by the events of the British-American War .

In 1817 Bigelow moved to Worcester. Between 1817 and 1833 he was an administrative clerk at the local district court. He also practiced as a lawyer again. He was the curator of the Leicester Academy in 1819 and 1820 and its treasurer from 1820 to 1853. Abijah Bigelow died on April 5, 1860 in Worcester, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Abijah Bigelow in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Abijah Bigelow in the database of Find a Grave (English)