George Thatcher

George Thatcher

George Thatcher (born April 12, 1754 in Yarmouth , Barnstable County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  April 6, 1824 in Biddeford , Maine ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1789 and 1801 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

George Thatcher enjoyed a private education and then studied at Harvard College until 1776 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission to the bar in 1778, he began to work in this profession in York in what is now Maine. From 1782 he lived in Biddeford. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1787 and 1789 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress . In addition to his parliamentary work, Thatcher held a judge's office between 1792 and 1800 in the district of the later state of Maine, which was then still part of Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1789 Thatcher was elected in the sixth constituency of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives, which was still meeting in Philadelphia at that time , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After five re-elections, he was able to complete six legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1801 . He successively represented the sixth, eighth, twelfth and 14th district of his state. During his tenure in Congress, the first eleven amendments to the United States Constitution were ratified. Since the late 1790s Thatcher was a member of the Federalist Party founded by Alexander Hamilton . From 1797 to 1799 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business . In 1800, the new federal capital Washington, DC was moved.

In 1800 George Thatcher renounced a new congressional candidacy. He subsequently served as a judge at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court until 1820 . In 1819 he was a delegate to the Constituent Assembly of the new state of Maine. From 1820 to 1824 he was a judge on the Maine Supreme Judicial Court . He died on April 6, 1824 in Biddeford.

Web links

• George Thatcher in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• George Thatcher in the database of Find a Grave (English)