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HERRICK, Ebenezer (1785-1839)

Adamsite of Maine

3rd congressional district

Served in House 1821-1827

Total roll-call votes cast: 216

Biography

Representative from Maine; born in Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine (then a district of Massachusetts), October 21, 1785; attended the common schools; studied law; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowdoinham, Lincoln County, Maine; engaged in mercantile pursuits 1814-1818; member of the Massachusetts house of representatives in 1819; member of the convention which formed the first constitution of the state of Maine in 1820; secretary of the Maine senate in 1821; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1827); declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1826; member of the Maine senate in 1828 and 1829; died in Lewiston, Maine, May 7, 1839; interment in the Old Herrick Burying Ground.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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