Peleg Tallman

Peleg Tallman (born July 24, 1764 in Tiverton , Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations , †  March 12, 1840 in Bath , Maine ) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1813 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Peleg Tallman attended public schools in his home country. Despite his youth, he took part in the final stages of the War of Independence . In 1780 he lost an arm in a battle. Between 1781 and 1783 he was a British prisoner of war in England and Ireland . After the war he worked in Bath in what was then the Maine district of the state of Massachusetts in trade. Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s .

In the 1810 congressional election , Tallman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the 16th  constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Orchard Cook on March 4, 1811 . Since he refused to run again in 1812, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1813 . During this time the British-American War began in 1812 .

Between 1802 and 1840 Peleg Tallman was a board member ( overseer ) of Bowdoin College . In 1821 and 1822 he was a member of the Senate of the new state of Maine, which was created in 1820.

Peleg Tallman was married to Eleanor Clarke (1774-1857). They had 10 children, one of the survivors was the future Maine Attorney General Henry Tallmann . Peleg Tallman died in Bath on March 12, 1840. His grave is in the Forest Hills Cemetery and Crematory.

Web links

• Peleg Tallman in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Peleg Tallman in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nauset and the World. In: capecodhistory.us. Retrieved February 7, 2016 .