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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / MassachusettsJohn HOLMES
(1773-1843)
Senate Years of Service:
1820-1827; 1829-1833Party: Democratic Republican;
Adams RepublicanHOLMES, John, a
Representative from Massachusetts and a Senator from Maine; born in
Kingston, Mass., March 14, 1773; attended the Kingston public
schools; graduated from Rhode Island College (now Brown
University), Providence, R.I., in 1796; studied law; admitted to
the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Alfred, Maine (then a
district of Massachusetts); also engaged in literary pursuits;
elected to the Massachusetts General Court in 1802, 1803, and 1812;
elected to the State senate in 1813 and 1814; one of the
commissioners under the treaty of Ghent to divide the islands of
Passamaquoddy Bay between the United States and Great Britain 1816;
elected from Massachusetts to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Congresses and served from March 4, 1817, to March 15, 1820, when
he resigned; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department
of State (Sixteenth Congress); delegate to the Maine constitutional
convention; upon separation from Massachusetts and the admission of
the State of Maine into the Union was elected as a Democratic
Republican to the United States Senate from Maine and served from
June 13, 1820, to March 3, 1827; again elected to the United States
Senate, as an Adams Republican, to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation of Albion K. Parris and served from January 15, 1829,
to March 3, 1833; chairman, Committee on Finance (Seventeenth
Congress), Committee on Pensions (Twenty-first Congress); resumed
law practice; member, State house of representatives 1836-1837;
appointed United States attorney for the Maine district in 1841 and
served until his death in Portland, Maine, July 7, 1843; interment
in private tomb of Cotton Brooks, Eastern Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Holmes, John. The Statesman, or Principles of
Legislation and Law. Augusta, ME: Severance Dorr, Printers,
1840.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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