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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Rhode IslandJob DURFEE
(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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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