John Holmes (Maine)
John Holmes ( born March 14, 1773 in Kingston, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † July 7, 1843 in Portland, Maine) was an American politician who represented the state of Maine in the U.S. Senate.
After attending school in Kingston John Holmes continued his education at the College of Rhode Iceland and Providence Plantations in Providence, today Brown University, fort, where he made his degree in 1796. Later, he studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1799, after which he began to practice in Alfred. At this time he was also active as a writer.
Holmes's political career began with the election to the House of Representatives of Massachusetts, where he served from 1802 to 1803 and in 1812. A term in the Senate from Massachusetts joined 1813-1814. In 1816 he was member of a commission that undertook the distribution of the islands in the Passamaquoddy Bay between the United States and the United Kingdom following the British -American War, according to the Treaty of Ghent. Moreover, commissioned him the Parliament with the establishment of state prisons as well as the revision of the Criminal Code of Massachusetts.
John Holmes was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives of the United States also in 1816. There he remained from March 4, 1817 until his resignation on 15 March 1820. Within the Democratic-Republican Party, he was one of the followers of William Harris Crawford, and John Quincy Adams. He served during his time as an MP including as Chairman of the Committee to control expenditure of the State Department.
Prior to the spin-off of Maine from Massachusetts Holmes took part in the Constitutional Convention of the new state. After Maine joined the Union, he became one of the first two U.S. senators from the government to the side of John Chandler. He took his seat June 13, 1820 to March 3, 1827 to true and then retired from first from the Senate, in which he but on January 15, 1829 returned again after the resignation of his successor Albion K. Parris; in the meantime he had gone over to the National Republican Party. Holmes finished Parris ' until March 3, 1833 current term. As a senator, he served as Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Pension Committee.
After the end of his time in Congress Holmes again worked as a lawyer. From 1836 to 1837 he was still sitting then in the House of Representatives from Maine, before he was appointed in 1841 to the United States Attorney for the District of Maine. This office he held until his death on July 7, 1843.