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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsThomas Dawes ELIOT
(1808-1870)
ELIOT, Thomas Dawes, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., March 20,
1808; attended the public schools of Washington, D.C., and was
graduated from Columbian College (now George Washington
University), in that city, in 1825; was admitted to the bar in 1831
and commenced practice in New Bedford, Mass.; member of the State
house of representatives in 1839; served in the State senate in
1846; elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress to fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Zeno Scudder and served from
April 17, 1854, to March 3, 1855; declined to be a candidate for
renomination in 1854; delegate to the Free-Soil Convention in
Worcester, Mass., in 1855; declined to be a candidate for
nomination by the Republican Party for attorney general of
Massachusetts in 1857; elected as a Republican to the Thirty-sixth
and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1859-March 3,
1869); chairman, Committee on the Freedmen’s Bureau
(Thirty-ninth and Fortieth Congresses), Committee on Commerce
(Fortieth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1868; resumed the practice of law in New Bedford, Mass., where he
died on June 14, 1870; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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