• The Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 met from May 4 to August 2 in order to consider changes to the Massachusetts Constitution. This was...
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  • government, and articles of amendment. Created by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1779, the document was primarily authored by American...
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    writer, and teacher. He was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, and a member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society...
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    (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising...
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  • Wright Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 33rd United States Congress List of Massachusetts General Courts "Composition of the State of Massachusetts...
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    dominated by the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, which proposed a new constitution for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The primary debate...
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    Peleg Emory Aldrich (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. Aldrich served as the mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1862. It was as the mayor of Worcester that...
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    in Lyme; minister, writer, and teacher; member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853 Dudley Marvin (1786–1856), born in Lyme; New York...
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    George Bruce Upton (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    served as a member of the Massachusetts Executive Council in 1853, and as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. Upton served as...
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    Frederick O. Prince (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    prominent participant in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. In 1854, he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate. After the Whig Party...
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  • Rodney French (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    House of Representatives in Massachusetts's 1st congressional district. French was a delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. In...
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    Hiram N. Breed (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    House of Representatives and the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1888), History of Essex County, Massachusetts: with...
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    Caleb Stetson (category Democratic Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    Commonwealth of Massachusetts: Begun and Held in Boston, on the Fourth Day of May, 1853 By Massachusetts Constitutional Convention p. 53, 191(1853). v t e...
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  • Giles Crouch Kellogg (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853. In the War of 1812, he served as an adjutant in one of the Massachusetts regiments. For several years...
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    Asahel Huntington (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    in the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, and in the same year was mayor of the city of Salem. He was also a longtime member of the Salem...
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  • Judge of the Ohio Court of Appeals. Son of Homer E. Abele. Watkins Moorman Abbitt (1908–1998), delegate to the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1945...
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  • National Convention 1884 1896 1900, U.S. Representative from Arkansas 1885–1903, delegate to the Arkansas Constitutional Convention 1918, Governor of Arkansas...
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    Marcus Morton (judge) (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1853, in which he sat for Andover, his home from 1850. In 1858 he served in the state House of Representatives...
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    Shays's Rebellion (category History of Berkshire County, Massachusetts)
    discussion of the number of chief executives the United States would have going forward. While mindful of tyranny, delegates of the Constitutional Convention thought...
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  • Howe family (United States politicians) (category Political families of the United States)
    Representative, delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1820 1853. Third cousin by marriage of William Howe, Thomas Marshall Howe, and Jonas...
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  • Carolina Constitutional Convention 1788 1789. Granduncle of Joseph Lane. Joseph Lane (1801–1881), Territorial Governor of Oregon, 1948–1850, 1853; Delegate...
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  • of politicians from the United States. Below is a list of members. Samuel Adams (1722–1803), delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1779...
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    Henry K. Oliver (category Republican Party members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    of Lawrence, Massachusetts, the 21st Mayor of Salem, Massachusetts as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the Adjutant General of...
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  • Constitutional Convention 1853, U.S. Senator from Massachusetts 1854–55, Judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court 1859–86. Father of Francis W. Rockwell...
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    Ephraim Cutler (category Ohio Constitutional Convention (1802))
    – July 8, 1853) was an early Northwest Territory and Ohio political leader and jurist. Ephraim Cutler was born in Edgartown, Massachusetts on April 13...
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  • Whiting Griswold (category Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives)
    member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and in the Massachusetts Senate. In 1864 Griswold was a presidential elector from Massachusetts for...
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  • National Convention 1876. Son of Asa Packer. William H. Packwood, delegate to the Oregon Constitutional Convention 1857. Great-grandfather of Robert W...
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  • 1843–44, Collector of the Port of Boston, Massachusetts 1845–49; delegate to the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention 1853; Massachusetts State Representative...
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    Presidents Series: The 14th President, 1853-1857 (Macmillan, 2010). Marshall, Schuyler C. "The Free Democratic Convention of 1852." Pennsylvania History 22.2...
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  • Virginia Constitutional Convention 1850, U.S. Representative from Virginia 1851–1853. Son of George Strother. James F. Strother (1868–1930), Judge of McDowell...
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