Thomas Dawes (politician)

Thomas Dawes (Portrait of Gilbert Stuart , ca.1806)

Thomas Dawes (born August 5, 1731 in Boston , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † January 2, 1809 ibid) was an American military, architect and politician.

Life

Dawes originally worked as a mechanic and a bricklayer . He served between 1773 and 1778 in the rank of colonel in the Boston Regiment in the American Revolutionary War and made a contribution to the political development of Massachusetts. He was a member of one of the two chambers of the Massachusetts General Court and the Boston City Assembly, which he also chaired several times. As an architect and builder, he was involved in Faneuil Hall , the Shirley-Eustis House , the Massachusetts State House and various buildings at Harvard University .

In 1784 Dawes was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

After the death of Increase Sumner , the governor of Massachusetts , on June 7, 1799 and the death of Lieutenant Governor Moses Gill on May 20, 1800, Dawes took over as chairman of the Governor's Council (compare colonial governments in the thirteen colonies # Governor's Council ) for ten days took over the leadership of the state before Caleb Strong became governor on May 30, 1800 .

His son Thomas Dawes (1757-1825) was a judge and was a member of both the Massachusetts constituent assemblies in 1780 and 1820 and (like his father) the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

literature

• Dawes, Hon. Thomas. In: A. Bradford: Biographical notices of distinguished men in New England. 1842.
• Dawes, Col. Thomas. In: FS Drake: Dictionary of American biography . 1870.
• Dawes, Thomas . In: James Grant Wilson, John Fiske (Eds.): Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography . tape 2 : Crane - Grimshaw . D. Appleton and Company, New York 1887, p. 108 (English, Textarchiv - Internet Archive ).
• Dawes, Thomas. In: TW Herringshaw: Herringshaw's national library of American biography. 1909-1914.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Historic New England Magazine - Fall 2004 ( January 25, 2010 memento on the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter D. (PDF; 575 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Accessed June 10, 2018 .