Edward St. Loe Livermore

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Edward St. Loe Livermore (born April 5, 1762 in Portsmouth , New Hampshire Colony , †  September 15, 1832 in Tewksbury , Massachusetts ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1807 and 1811 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Livermore was the son of US Senator Samuel Livermore (1732-1803) and the older brother of Congressman Arthur Livermore (1766-1853) from New Hampshire . He received a good education. After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1783, he began to work in Concord in this profession. He later moved his residence and law firm to his hometown of Portsmouth. Between 1789 and 1797 Livermore was a federal attorney . At the same time he served from 1791 to 1793 as the legal representative of Rockingham County . From 1797 to 1799 he was a judge on the New Hampshire Supreme Court ; from 1799 to 1802 he was a Naval Officer in the Portsmouth Harbor Administration. From 1802 he lived in Newburyport (Massachusetts), where he began a political career as a member of the Federalist Party .

In the 1806 congressional elections , Livermore was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Jeremiah Nelson on March 4, 1807 . After re-election, he was able to complete two legislative terms in Congress until March 3, 1811 . In 1810 he decided not to run again. After his tenure in the US House of Representatives, Livermore practiced as a lawyer in Boston . In 1815, he moved temporarily to Zanesville in the state of Ohio ; then he returned to Boston. He spent his old age in Tewksbury, where he died on September 15, 1832.

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