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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsPeleg TALLMAN
(1764-1840)
TALLMAN, Peleg, a
Representative from Massachusetts; born in Tiverton, R.I., July 24,
1764; attended the public schools; served in the Revolutionary War
on the privateer Trumbull, and lost an arm in an engagement
in 1780; was captured and imprisoned in England and Ireland
1781-1783; engaged in mercantile pursuits in Bath, Maine (until
1820 a district of Massachusetts); elected as a Republican to the
Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); declined to be a
candidate for renomination; overseer of Bowdoin College, Brunswick,
Maine, 1802-1840; member of the Maine senate in 1821 and 1822; died
in Bath, Maine, March 12, 1840; interment in Maple Grove Cemetery;
reinterment in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury, Mass.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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