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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJosiah Gardner ABBOTT
(1814-1891)
ABBOTT, Josiah Gardner, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Chelmsford, Middlesex
County, Mass., November 1, 1814; attended the Chelmsford Academy,
Concord, Mass.; graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge,
Mass., 1832; LL.D., Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., 1862,
teacher; lawyer, private practice; member of the Massachusetts
state house of representatives, 1836; member of the Massachusetts
state senate, 1841-1842; aide to Massachusetts Governor Marcus
Morton, 1843; master in chancery, 1850-1855; member of the
Massachusetts state constitutional convention, 1853; justice of the
superior court, Suffolk County, Mass., 1855-1858; overseer of
Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1859-1865; several times was
the unsuccessful Democratic candidate for United States Senator;
declined an appointment to the supreme court bench in 1860;
declined the Democratic nomination for attorney general in 1861;
successfully contested as a Democrat the election of Rufus S. Frost
to the Forty-fourth Congress (July 28, 1876-March 3, 1877); was not
a candidate for renomination in 1876; member of the Electoral
Commission created by the act of Congress approved January 29,
1877, to decide the presidential election of 1876; died on June 2,
1891, in Wellesley Hills, near Boston, Mass.; interment in St.
Mary’s Cemetery, Newton Lower Falls, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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