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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandDURFEE, Job
(1790—1847)
DURFEE, Job, a Representative from Rhode Island; born in Tiverton, R.I., September 20, 1790; attended the common schools and was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1813; studied law; was admitted to the bar at Newport, R.I., in 1817 and commenced practice in Tiverton; member of the State house of representatives 1816-1820; elected as a Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1825); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; again a member of the State house of representatives 1826-1829 and served as speaker 1827-1829; declined to be a candidate for reelection; resumed the practice of law; elected associate justice of the State supreme court in 1833; chief justice of the State supreme court from June 1835 until his death in Tiverton, Newport County, R.I., July 26, 1847; interment in the family burying ground at Quaket Neck, near Tiverton, R.I.
Durfee, Job. A discourse, delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society ... January 13, 1847
. Published at the request of the Society. Providence: C. Burnett, Jr., 1847.
—-. The influence of scientific discovery and invention on social and political progress. Oration delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society of Brown University, Providence, R.I., on commencement day, September 6, 1843
. Providence: B. Cranston and Company, 1843.
—-. What cheer, or, Roger Williams in banishment. A poem
. Providence: Cranston and Hammond, 1832.
Rhode Island. Supreme Judicial Court. Charge of the Hon. Chief Justice Durfee
. [Bristol: N.p.,1842].
—-. Opinion of the judges of the Supreme Court, acting as referees in cases William Allen & others, owners of mills on the Blackstone River, vs. the Blackstone Canal Company
. [Providence?: N.p., 1837?]
Hazard, Rowland Gibson. A discourse delivered before the Rhode-Island Historical Society, on ... January 18th, 1848: On the character and writings of Chief Justice Durfee
. Providence: C. Burnett, Jr., 1848.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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