Martin Kinsley

Martin Kinsley (born June 2, 1754 in Bridgewater , Plymouth County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , †  June 20, 1835 in Roxbury , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Martin Kinsley attended Harvard College until 1778 and then studied medicine. During the War of Independence he was temporarily active in the procurement of supplies for the American troops. From 1787 to 1792 he was Chamberlain for the City of Hardwick . Between 1787 and 1806 he sat several times as a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts ; in 1814 he was a member of the State Senate . From 1810 to 1811 he served on the Massachusetts Governing Council. In 1811 he became an appellate judge and then a probate judge.

Kinsley was a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s . In the congressional elections of 1818 he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 17th  constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded John Wilson on March 4, 1819 . Until March 3, 1821 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress ; then his district was dissolved. A candidacy in another constituency was unsuccessful in 1820.

After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, Martin Kinsley no longer appeared politically. He died on June 20, 1835 in Roxbury, which is now part of Boston .

Web links

• Martin Kinsley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)