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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsJohn Gorham PALFREY
(1796-1881)
PALFREY, John Gorham, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., May 2,
1796; completed preparatory studies in Phillips Exeter Academy,
Exeter, N.H., and was graduated from Harvard University in 1815;
studied theology and was ordained minister of Brattle Square
Unitarian Church, Boston, June 17, 1818; editor of the North
American Review 1835-1843; member of the State house of
representatives in 1842 and 1843; secretary of state of
Massachusetts 1844-1848; elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth
Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849); unsuccessful candidate on
the Free-Soil ticket for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first
Congress; postmaster of Boston 1861-1867; devoted himself to
literary pursuits; died in Cambridge, Mass., April 26, 1881;
interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Bibliography
Gattell, Frank Otto. John Gorham Palfrey and the New England
Conscience. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963;
Gattell, Frank Otto. “Palfrey’s Vote, the Conscience
Whigs, and the Election of Speaker Winthrop.” New England
Quarterly 31 (June 1958): 218-31.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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