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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsWilliam EUSTIS
(1753-1825)
EUSTIS, William, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Cambridge, Mass., June
10, 1753; attended the Boston public schools and was graduated from
Harvard College in 1772; studied medicine and served in the
Revolutionary Army as surgeon; resumed practice in Boston; was a
surgeon in the expedition sent to suppress Shays’ Rebellion
in 1786 and 1787; member of the State house of representatives
1788-1794; elected as a Republican to the Seventh and Eighth
Congresses (March 4, 1801-March 3, 1805); one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1804 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against John Pickering, judge of the United
States District Court for New Hampshire; unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1804 to the Ninth Congress; appointed Secretary of
War in the Cabinet of President Madison and served from 1807 to
1812; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to
the Netherlands and served from December 19, 1814, to May 5, 1818;
elected to the Sixteenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Edward Dowse; reelected to the Seventeenth Congress
and served from August 21, 1820, to March 3, 1823; chairman,
Committee on Military Affairs (Seventeenth Congress); did not seek
renomination but was elected Governor of Massachusetts and served
from May 31, 1823, until his death in Boston, Mass., February 6,
1825; interment in the Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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