Barnabas Bidwell

Barnabas Bidwell ( born August 23, 1763 in Monterey, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, † July 27, 1833 in Kingston, Upper Canada ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1807, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Barnabas Bidwell attended to 1785 the Yale College. After studying law at Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ) and his 1805 was admitted to the bar he began in Stockbridge to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. Between 1801 and 1804 he sat in the Massachusetts Senate; 1805 to 1807 he was a member of the House of Representatives of that State.

In the congressional elections of 1804 Bidwell was in the twelfth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Simon Larned on March 4, 1805. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on August 30, 1810 in Congress. Coinciding with his Congress membership Bidwell was also Attorney General of Massachusetts. A little later he fled to Upper Canada to escape prosecution because of a temporarily uncovered money embezzlement. There he tried to continue his political career. He was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Upper Canada. There, however, he was denied membership after fierce debates with 17:16 votes because he was considered a fugitive from the law and are therefore considered morally inappropriate. He died on 27 July 1833.