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KINSLEY, Martin (1754-1835)

Democrat-Republican of Massachusetts

17th congressional district

Served in House 1819-1821

Total roll-call votes cast: 129

Biography

Representative from Massachusetts; born in Bridgewater, Mass., June 2, 1754; graduated from Harvard College in 1778; studied medicine; served in the Revolutionary War; purveyor of supplies in the Continental Army; member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1787, 1788, 1790-1792, 1794-1796, 1801-1804, and 1806; treasurer of Hardwick, Mass., 1787-1792; moved to Hampden in 1797; representative of Hampden in the general court 1801-1804 and 1806; member of the executive council in 1810 and 1811; judge of the court of common pleas in 1811; judge of the probate court; served in the state senate in 1814; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress; died in Roxbury, Mass., June 20, 1835.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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