Asahel Stearns

Asahel Stearns (* June 17, 1774 in Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † February 5, 1839 in Cambridge, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1815 and 1817 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Asahel Stearns attended the Harvard University until 1797. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in Chelmsford in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Federalist Party, a political career. In 1813 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate. Since 1815, he lived in Charlestown.

In the congressional elections of 1814 Stearns was in the fourth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Dana on March 4, 1815. Until March 3, 1817, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In 1817, Stearns was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. From 1817 to 1829 he served as a professor at Harvard University. After that he was in the years 1830 and 1831 again a member of the State Senate. He died on 5 February 1839 in Cambridge.