Ebenezer Herrick

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Ebenezer Herrick (born October 21, 1785 in Lewiston , Massachusetts , † May 7, 1839 there ) was an American politician . Between 1821 and 1827 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ebenezer Herrick was born in 1785 in Lewiston, which was then still part of Massachusetts and has belonged to the then newly founded state of Maine since 1820. He attended the public schools in his home country. After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law, he began in Bowdoinham , Lincoln County to practice in his new profession. Between 1814 and 1818 he was active in the trade. Politically, Herrick was a member of the Democratic Republican Party . In 1819 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives. In 1820 he was a member of the Maine Constituent Assembly and in 1821 he was secretary to the Maine Senate .

In the 1820 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of Maine . He was the first congressman of this district, whom he represented between March 4, 1821 and March 3, 1823. He was re-elected to Congress in Maine's third district in 1822 and 1824 . There he replaced Mark Langdon Hill on March 4, 1823 . Ebenezer Herrick was able to exercise his mandate until March 3, 1827. In the 1820s he joined the faction led by President John Quincy Adams . His last years in Congress were overshadowed by heated discussions between his party and the supporters of later President Andrew Jackson .

In 1826 Herrick declined to run again. Between 1828 and 1829 he was a member of the Maine Senate. Then he withdrew from politics. Ebenezer Herrick died on May 7, 1839 in his birthplace Lewiston. His son Anson represented New York State in Congress between 1863 and 1865 .

Web links

  • Ebenezer Herrick in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)