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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Massachusetts / USJoseph Bradley VARNUM
(1750/1751-1821)
Senate Years of Service:
1811-1817Party: Democratic
RepublicanVARNUM, Joseph Bradley,
(brother of James Mitchell Varnum), a Representative and a Senator
from Massachusetts; born in Dracut, Middlesex County, Mass.,
January 29, 1750 or 1751; largely self-taught; farmer; served in
the Revolutionary Army; member, State house of representatives
1780-1785; member, State senate 1786-1795; delegate to the State
convention that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1788; justice
of the court of common pleas; chief justice of the court of general
sessions; elected to the Fourth and to the eight succeeding
Congresses and served from March 4, 1795, to June 29, 1811, when he
resigned, having been elected Senator; Speaker of the House during
the Tenth and Eleventh Congresses; chairman, Committee on Elections
(Fifth Congress); elected as a Democratic Republican to the United
States Senate in 1811 to fill the vacancy in the term commencing
March 4, 1811, and served from June 29, 1811, to March 3, 1817;
served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirteenth
Congress; chairman, Committee on Militia (Fourteenth Congress);
delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820; member,
State senate 1817-1821; died in Dracut, Mass., September 21, 1821;
interment in Varnum Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Varnum, Joseph.
“Autobiography of General Joseph B. Varnum.” Edited by
James M. Varnum. Magazine of American History 20 (November
1888): 405-14.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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