Elijah H. Mills

Elijah H. Mills

Elijah Hunt Mills (born December 1, 1776 in Chesterfield , Hampshire County , Massachusetts , †  May 5, 1829 in Northampton , Massachusetts) was an American politician ( Federal Party ) who represented the state of Massachusetts in both chambers of Congress .

Elijah Mills received his education from private tutors. He then attended Williams College , where he graduated in 1797. He studied law , was admitted to the bar and opened a law firm in Northampton. He later became a district attorney in Hampshire County and ran his own law school in Northampton from 1823 .

Mills' political career began in the Massachusetts House of Representatives , of which he was a member from 1811 to 1814. He was then elected to the House of Representatives of the United States , where he represented the interests of the federalists from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1819. As a result, he first returned to the parliament of his home state and acted there in 1820 as speaker ; in the same year he was elected to succeed the resigned US Senator Prentiss Mellen . After being re-elected, he remained in Washington until March 3, 1827 ; another candidacy in 1826 was unsuccessful. Thereafter, Mills retired from public life due to health problems.

Elijah Mills was the great-great-grandfather of Henry Cabot Lodge , who also sat for Massachusetts in the US Senate from 1937 to 1953, and of John Davis Lodge , the governor of Connecticut from 1951 to 1955. The eminent mathematician and philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce was Mills' Grandson.

Web links

• Elijah H. Mills in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Elijah H. Mills in the database of Find a Grave (English)