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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJames CARR
(1777-1818)
CARR, James, (son of
Francis Carr), a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Bangor,
Maine (then a part of Massachusetts), September 9, 1777; attended
Exeter and Byfield Academies; clerk on U.S.S. Crescent;
appointed as secretary to the United States consul at Algiers and
served two years; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Orrington,
Maine (then Massachusetts); member of the State house of
representatives 1806-1811; elected as a Federalist to the
Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1817); was drowned in
the Ohio River August 24, 1818; memorial headstone placed in Mount
Hope Cemetery, Bangor, Maine.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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