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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsPALFREY, John Gorham
(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.
Gatell, Frank Otto. “Doctor Palfrey Frees His Slaves.” New England Quarterly
34 (March 1961): 74-86.
———. John Gorham Palfrey and the New England Conscience.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1963.
———. “John Gorham Palfrey: His Early Life and Political Career, 1796-1853.” Ph.D. diss., Harvard University, 1960.
———. “Palfrey’s Vote, The Conscience Whigs, and the Election of Speaker Winthrop.” New England Quarterly
31 (June 1958): 218-31.
Palfrey, John Gorham. An address delivered before the Society for promoting theological education
. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1831.
———. An address to the Society of Middlesex husbandmen and manufacturers
. Cambridge: Metcalf and Company, printers, 1846.
———. The claims of Harvard College upon its sons: A sermon preached in the chapel of that institution, on Lords’s day afternoon, July, 1834
. Cambridge: James Munroe and Co., 1834.
———. A Compendious History of New England: From the Discovery by Europeans to the First General Congress of the Anglo-American Colonies
. Boston: H. C. Shepard, 1873. Reprint, Boston: J. R. Osgood and Co., 1884.
———. Correspondence between Nathan Appleton and John G. Palfrey intended as a supplement to Mr. Palfrey’s pamphlet on slave power
. Boston: Eastburn’s Press, 1846.
———. A discourse at Barnstable on the third of September, 1839
. Boston: F. Andrews, 1840.
———. A discourse delivered in the church in Brattle square, Boston, August 9, 1832, the day appointed for fasting and prayer in Massachusetts on account of the approach of cholera
. 2d ed. Boston: Gray and Bowen, 1832.
———. A discourse on the life and character of the Reverend Henry Ware, D.D., A.A.S. ... : Pronounced in the First Church in Cambridge, Sept. 28, 1845
. Boston: Wm. Crosby and H.P. Nichols, 1846.
———. A discourse pronounced at Barnstable on the third of September, 1839, at the celebration of the second centennial anniversary of the settlement of Cape Cod
. Boston: F. Andrews, 1840.
———. Elements of Chaldee, Syriac, Samaritan, and Rabbinical grammar
. Boston: Crocker and Brewster, 1835.
———. The eligibility of women for public office under the constitution of Massachusetts
. [Boston, Mass.]: N.p., 1922.
———. History of New England during the Stuart dynasty
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1865.
———. A history of New England, from the discovery by Europeans to the revolution of the seventeenth century, being an abridgment of his “History of New England during the Stuart dynasty.”
New York: Hurd and Houghton, 1866.
———. The inter-state slave trade
. [New York: American Anti-Slavery Society, 1855].
———. Letter from a Congregationalist to a friend, on the subject of joining the new Episcopalian Church
. Boston: Wells and Lilly, 1820.
———. Letter to a Whig neighbor, on the approaching state election, by an old conservative
. Boston: Crosby, Nichols, & Company, 1855.
———. An oration pronounced before the citizens of Boston, on the anniversary of the Declaration of American Independence, July 4th, 1831
. Boston: Press of J. H. Eastburn, city printer, 1831.
———. Papers on the slave power, first published in the “Boston Whig.”
Boston: Merrill, Cobb & Co., [1846].
———. Remarks concerning the late Dr. Bowditch, by the Rev. Dr. Palfrey, with the replies of Dr. Bowditch’s children
. Boston: C.C. Little & Co., 1840.
———. Remarks on the proposed state constitution
. By a Freesoiler from the start. Boston: Crosby, Nichols & Co., 1853 (Boston : John Wilson and Son)
———. Review of Lord Mahon’s
“History of the American Revolution.” Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1852.
———. A sermon occasioned by the death of John Gorham
. Boston: S. G. Goodrich and Co., 1829.
———. A sermon preached at the installation of Rev. Samuel Kirkland Lothrop as pastor of the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, June 18, 1834
. Boston: Nathan Hale, 1834.
———. A sermon preached in the Church in Brattle Square, Boston, August 1, 1830, the Lord’s Day after the decease of the Honorable Isaac Parker
. Boston: N. Hale and Gray & Bowen, 1830.
———. A sermon preached in the Church in Brattle Square, December 1, 1833, the Lord’s Day after the decease of Miss Elizabeth Bond
. Boston: Nathan Hale, 1834.
———. A sermon preached to the church in Brattle Square, in two parts, July 18, 1824
. Boston: Printed for Oliver C. Greenleaf by Phelps and Farnham, 1825.
———. A sermon preached to the Society in Brattle Square, June 8th, 1823; the Lord’s Day after the interment of the late Hon. John Phillips
. Boston: Printed by Munroe and Francis, 1823.
——— Sermons on duties belonging to some of the conditions and relations of private life
. Boston: Charles Bowen, 1834.
———. Speech of Mr. Palfrey, of Massachusetts, on the political aspects of the slave question. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 26th, 1848
. Washington: Printed by J. & G. S. Gideon, 1848.
———. The theory and uses of natural religion; being the Dudleian lecture, read before the University of Cambridge, May 8th, 1839
. Boston: F. Andrews, 1839.
———. To the Free soil members of the General Court of Massachusetts for the year 1851
. [Boston: N.p., 1851].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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