Judah Dana

Judah Dana (born April 25, 1772 in Pomfret , Windsor County , New Hampshire Colony , † December 27, 1845 in Fryeburg , Oxford County , Maine ) was an American politician . In 1836 and 1837 he represented the state of Maine in the US Senate .

Life

Judah Dana attended public schools in his homeland. In 1795 he graduated from Dartmouth College in Hanover , New Hampshire . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1798, he began to work in his new profession in Freyeburg. This city and the entire area of ​​the later state of Maine belonged to the state of Massachusetts until 1820 . Between 1805 and 1811, Dana was a district attorney in Oxford County. From 1811 to 1822 he was an estate, district and appellate judge at the same time. In 1819 he was a member of an assembly that commissioned a committee to draft the constitution of the future state of Maine. Between 1820 and 1843 he was also the curator of Bowdoin College . In 1834 he was a member of the governor's council of government . Politically, he had become a member of the Democratic Party as a supporter of President Andrew Jackson .

After the resignation of US Senator Ether Shepley , Judah Dana was appointed to his successor as Class 1 Senator in Congress in Washington, DC . He exercised this mandate between December 7, 1836 and March 3, 1837. Then the mandate fell to the regularly elected Reuel Williams . After leaving Congress, Dana did not appear politically. He died on December 27, 1845 in Fryeburg. His son John W. Dana (1808–1867) was Governor of Maine between 1847 and 1850.

literature

• Dana, Judah . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 68 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

• Judah Dana in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Judah Dana in the database of Find a Grave (English)