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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / MassachusettsJoshua CUSHMAN
(1761-1834)
CUSHMAN, Joshua, a
Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in Halifax,
Mass., April 11, 1761; served in the Revolutionary Army from April
1, 1777, until March 1780; was graduated from Harvard University in
1787; studied theology; was ordained to the ministry and licensed
to preach; located in Winslow, Maine (then a district of
Massachusetts), and was pastor of the Congregational Church for
nearly twenty years; served in the Massachusetts senate in 1810;
member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1811 and
1812; elected as Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth
Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); when the State of Maine was
separated from Massachusetts and admitted as a State into the Union
was elected as a Republican Representative from Maine to the
Seventeenth Congress; and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to
the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); served in
the Maine senate in 1828; member of the Maine house of
representatives in 1834; died in Augusta, Maine, on January 27,
1834; interment in a tomb on the State grounds, Augusta, Maine.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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