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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsRufus CHOATE
(1799-1859)
Senate Years of Service:
1841-1845Party: WhigCHOATE, Rufus, a
Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Essex,
Mass., on October 1, 1799; graduated from Dartmouth College,
Hanover, N.H., in 1819; studied law; admitted to the bar and
commenced practice in Danvers, Mass., in 1823; member, State house
of representatives 1825; member, State senate 1826; moved to Salem
in 1828; elected as a Whig to the Twenty-second and Twenty-third
Congresses and served from March 4, 1831, to June 30, 1834, when he
resigned; moved to Boston in 1834; elected to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel
Webster and served from February 23, 1841, to March 3, 1845;
retired from political life to devote his time to law; member of
the State constitutional convention in 1853; attorney general of
Massachusetts in 1853; died in Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 13, 1859;
interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; The Yale Biographical
Dictionary of American Law; Choate, Rufus. The Works of
Rufus Choate: With A Memoir of His Life. Edited by S.G. Brown.
2 vols. 1862. Reprint. New York: AMS Press, 1972; Matthews, Jean.
Rufus Choate. Philadelphia: Temple University Press,
1980.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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