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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsLorenzo SABINE
(1803-1877)
SABINE, Lorenzo, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in New Concord (now
Lisbon), N.H., February 28, 1803; moved to Boston, Mass., with his
parents in 1811 and to Hampden, Maine, in 1814; completed
preparatory studies; at the age of eighteen moved to Eastport,
Maine, and became employed as a clerk and afterward engaged in
mercantile pursuits; editor of the Eastport Sentinel; founder of
the Eastport Lyceum; incorporator of Eastport Academy and Eastport
Athenaeum; member of the Maine house of representatives in 1833 and
1834; deputy collector of customs at Eastport 1841-1843; moved to
Framingham, Mass., in 1848, having been appointed trial justice;
elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second Congress to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Benjamin Thompson and served from December
13, 1852, to March 3, 1853; was not a candidate for the
Thirty-third Congress; moved to Roxbury, Mass., having been
appointed secretary of the Boston Board of Trade; also served as
special agent of the United States Treasury Department; died in
Roxbury, Mass., April 14, 1877; interment in Hillside Cemetery,
Eastport, Washington County, Maine.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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