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BURGES, Tristam (1770-1853)

Anti-Jacksonian of Rhode Island

98th congressional district

Served in House 1825-1835

Total roll-call votes cast: 900

Biography

Representative from Rhode Island; born in Rochester, Mass., February 26, 1770; attended the common schools; studied medicine at a school in Wrentham; upon the death of his father he abandoned the study of medicine; was graduated from Rhode Island College (now Brown University), Providence, R.I., in 1796; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1799 and commenced practice in Providence, R.I.; member of the Rhode Island state house of representatives in 1811 and was prominent as a member of the Federal Party; appointed chief justice of the supreme court of Rhode Island in May 1815; unsuccessful candidate for election to the same in 1816; professor of oratory in Brown University; elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and to the succeeding Congress; reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1825-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Nineteenth Congress), Committee on Military Pensions (Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses), Committee on Revolutionary Claims (Twenty-first Congress), Committee on Invalid Pensions (Twenty-second and Twenty-third Congresses); unsuccessful candidate for reelection; unsuccessful Whig candidate for Governor in 1836; resumed the practice of law; died on his estate, ``Watchemoket Farm'' (now a part of East Providence, R.I.), October 13, 1853; interment in North Burial Ground, Providence, R.I.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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