Caleb Ellis

Caleb Ellis ( * April 16, 1767 in Walpole, Norfolk County, Massachusetts, † May 6, 1816 in Claremont, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1805 and 1807, he represented the State of New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Caleb Ellis studied beyond primary school until 1793 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he moved to Newport and then to Claremont, New Hampshire. Ellis was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. In 1803 he was elected to the House of Representatives from New Hampshire.

In the congressional elections of 1804, which were held all across the state, Ellis was the second parliamentary seat from New Hampshire in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1805 the successor of Samuel Hunt. By March 3, 1807 Ellis but could do only one term in Congress. In the years 1809 and 1810 he was a member of the senior staff of Governor Jeremiah Smith. In 1811 he sat in the Senate of New Hampshire, in the following year he was a federal elector in the presidential elections. From 1813 to his death in May 1816 Caleb Ellis worked as a judge at the Superior Court of New Hampshire.