Amos Nourse

Amos Nourse ( born December 17, 1794 in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † April 7, 1877 in Bath, Maine ) was an American politician.

Life

Early life

Amos Nourse graduated in 1812 from Harvard College in 1817 and took his degree in medicine at Harvard Medical School. Nevertheless, he took a job as a civil servant and was postmaster from 1822 to 1841 in Hallowell (Maine).

1845 moved Nourse of Wiscasset, a city in which he lived and worked until 1846 to Bath at customs. With the money he earned, he could afford a small medical practice in Bath. Additional income came through his work as a guest lecturer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, where he taught from 1846 to 1854 obstetrics. Nourse 1855 college professor and taught until 1866.

Political activity

Following the resignation of Hannibal Hamlin as a U.S. Senator Nourse was appointed as a member of the Party of the Republicans in 1856 to his successor. The mandate, which he took up on 16 January 1857 Nourse, however, had only less than two months, until March 3, 1857 held. Then he was replaced by Hamlin again.

Late life

1860 Nourse was appointed honorary judge at the Probate Court of Sagadahoc County. He resigned, however, in the same year from unspecified reasons down.

Amos Nourse died in 1877, at the age of 82 years.