VARNUM, Joseph Bradley (1750-1821)
Democrat-Republican of Massachusetts 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1811-1817
Served in House 1795-1811
Biography
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 of the Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1780-1785; member of the Massachusetts state senate, 1786-1795; delegate to the Massachusetts 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 (Tenth and Eleventh Congresses); chair, 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 Massachusetts state constitutional convention in 1820; member of the Massachusetts state senate, 1817-1821; died in Dracut, Mass., September 21, 1821; interment in Varnum Cemetery.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
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