Nathan Read

Nathan Read ( born July 2, 1759 in Warren, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † January 20, 1849 in Belfast, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1800 and 1803 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Read Nathan attended the common schools and then studied until 1781 at Harvard University. He then taught in Beverly and Salem as a teacher. He then taught until 1787 and at Harvard. Later he opened a pharmacy in Salem. He was also involved in Danvers to an iron factory. Politically, he was a member of the late 1790s, founded by Alexander Hamilton Federalist Party.

Following the resignation of Mr Samuel Sewall Read was chosen as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives at the due election for the tenth seat from Massachusetts, where he took up his new mandate on November 25, 1800. After a re-election, he could remain until March 3, 1803 Congress. 1802 renounced Read to a new Congress candidacy. The following year he became a judge at the Court of Appeal in Essex County. Since 1807, he lived in Belfast in what is now Maine, where he served as a district judge in Hancock County. Nathan Read passed away on January 20, 1849 near Belfast, where he was also buried.