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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJeremiah NELSON
(1769-1838)
NELSON, Jeremiah, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Rowley, Essex County,
Mass., September 14, 1769; completed preparatory studies; was
graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, N.H., in 1790; engaged
in the mercantile business in Newburyport, Essex County, Mass.;
member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1803 and 1804;
elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805-March
3, 1807); was not a candidate for renomination in 1806 to the Tenth
Congress; chairman board of selectmen of Newburyport in 1811;
elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth and to the three
succeeding Congresses and reelected as an Adams-Clay Federalist to
the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1815-March 3, 1825); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Congresses); was not a candidate for renomination in
1824 to the Nineteenth Congress; president of the Newburyport
Mutual Fire Insurance Co. in 1829; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to
the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831-March 3, 1833); declined
to be a candidate for renomination in 1832; engaged in the shipping
business; died in Newburyport, Mass., October 2, 1838; interment in
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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