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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsGeorge Nixon BRIGGS
(1796-1861)
BRIGGS, George Nixon, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Adams, Mass., April 12,
1796; when seven years of age moved with his parents to Manchester,
Vt., and, two years later, to White Creek, N.Y.; attended the
public schools; moved to Lanesboro, Mass., in 1814; apprenticed to
the hatter’s trade; studied law; was admitted to the bar in
1818 and commenced practice in Lanesboro; register of deeds for
Berkshire County 1824-1831; elected town clerk in 1824; appointed
chairman of the board of commissioners of highways in 1826; elected
as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-second through the
Twenty-fourth Congresses and as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth through
Twenty-seventh Congresses (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1843); chairman,
Committee on Public Expenditures (Twenty-sixth Congress), Committee
on the Post Office and Post Roads (Twenty-seventh Congress); was
not a candidate for renomination in 1842; moved to Pittsfield in
1843; Governor of Massachusetts 1844-1851; resumed the practice of
law in Pittsfield; member of the State constitutional convention in
1853; judge of the court of common pleas 1853-1858; appointed in
1861 as a member of a commission to adjust differences between the
United States and New Granada; accidentally killed in Pittsfield,
Berkshire County, Mass., on September 11, 1861; interment in the
Pittsfield Cemetery.
Bibliography
Richards, William Carey. Great in goodness: A memoir of George
N. Briggs, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, from
1844-1851. Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1866. Reprint, New York,
Sheldon and Company; [etc., etc.], 1867.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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