Peleg Sprague (politician, 1756)

Peleg Sprague (born December 10, 1756 in Rochester , Plymouth County , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † April 20, 1800 in Keene , New Hampshire ) was an American politician . Between 1797 and 1799 he represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Peleg Sprague was employed in a shop in Littleton when he was young . He then attended Harvard College , which later became Harvard University and, until 1783, Dartmouth College in Hanover . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1785, Sprague began working in his new profession in Winchendon, Massachusetts. In 1787 he moved to Keene, New Hampshire. There he was a councilor from 1789 to 1791. In 1794 he was a district attorney in Cheshire County .

Sprague was a member of the Federalist Party . In 1797 he was elected to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. After the resignation of Congressman Jeremiah Smith , he was elected his successor in the US House of Representatives in a state-wide by-election. There he ended between December 15, 1797 and March 3, 1799 the legislative period started by his predecessor. In the regular elections of 1798 Sprague no longer ran. He died in Keene on April 20, 1800.

Peleg Sprague was only closely related to the politician of the same name from the state of Maine (1793-1880). John Sprague (approx. 1630–1676) was the ancestor of the two in the male line.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ^ Relationship Calculator: The Sprague Project. Retrieved February 19, 2012 .