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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—Maine / MassachusettsEzekiel WHITMAN
(1776-1866)
WHITMAN, Ezekiel, a
Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in East
Bridgewater, Mass., March 9, 1776; was graduated from Brown
University, Providence, R.I., in 1795; studied law; was admitted to
the bar and practiced in New Gloucester, Maine (until 1820 a
district of Massachusetts), 1799-1807 and in Portland, Maine,
1807-1852; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1806 to the Tenth
Congress; elected as a Federalist from Massachusetts to the
Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); member of the
executive council in 1815 and 1816; elected to the Fifteenth and
Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); delegate to the
convention in 1819 that framed the first State constitution of
Maine; elected to the Seventeenth Congress from Maine and served
from March 4, 1821, to June 1, 1822, when he resigned; judge of the
court of common pleas of Maine 1822-1841; unsuccessful candidate
for election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; served as chief
justice of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court 1841-1848; retired
in 1852 and returned to East Bridgewater, Mass., where he died on
August 1, 1866.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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