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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn LOCKE
(1764-1855)
LOCKE, John, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Hopkinton, Middlesex
County, Mass., February 14, 1764; attended Andover Academy and
Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H.; taught school; was graduated from
Harvard University in 1792; studied law; was admitted to the bar
and commenced practice in Ashby in 1796; member of the state house
of representatives in 1804, 1805, 1813, and 1823; delegate to the
state constitutional convention in 1820; elected as an Adams-Clay
Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams
candidate to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses (March 4,
1823-March 3, 1829); declined to be a candidate for renomination in
1828; member of the state senate in 1830 and of the state executive
council in 1831; resumed the practice of his profession; moved to
Lowell, Mass., in 1837 and to Boston in 1849; died in Boston,
Mass., March 29, 1855; interment in Lowell Cemetery, Lowell,
Middlesex County, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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