Josiah Gardner Abbott

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Josiah Gardner Abbott

Josiah Gardner Abbott (born November 1, 1814 in Chelmsford , Middlesex County , Massachusetts , †  June 2, 1891 in Wellesley Hills , Massachusetts) was an American politician . In 1876 and 1877 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Josiah Abbott attended Chelmsford Academy and then studied at Harvard University until 1832 . After a subsequent law degree at Williams College in Williamstown and his admission to the bar, he began to work in this profession. At times he also worked as a teacher. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Party . In 1836 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives ; from 1841 to 1842 he was a member of the State Senate . In 1843 he was a member of the staff of Governor Marcus Morton . In 1853 Abbott attended a meeting to revise the Massachusetts Constitution as a delegate . Between 1855 and 1858 he was a Superior Court Judge in Suffolk County ; from 1859 to 1865 he served as a board member ( Overseer ) of Harvard University.

Abbott ran for the US Senate several times without success . In 1860 he declined an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States , and a year later the position of United States Attorney General . Abbott lost to Republican Rufus S. Frost in the congressional election of 1874 . After a successful election, he was then able to win the mandate and take his seat in the US House of Representatives on July 28, 1876. Since he renounced another candidacy in the regular elections of 1876, he could only end the current legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1877 . In early 1877 Abbott was a member of the Commission set up by Congress to clarify the controversial presidential election of 1876 between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden .

After his time in the US House of Representatives, Josiah Abbott practiced as a lawyer again. He died on June 2, 1891 in Wellesley Hills near Boston .

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