Ebenezer Herrick

Ebenezer Herrick ( born October 21, 1785 Lewiston, Massachusetts, † May 7, 1839 ) was an American politician. Between 1821 and 1827 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Ebenezer Herrick was born in 1785 in Lewiston, which was still part of Massachusetts at that time and since 1820 part of the then newly founded state of Maine. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to practice in his new profession in Bowdoinham in Lincoln County. Between 1814 and 1818, he worked in the trade. Politically Herrick was a member of the Democratic- Republican Party. In 1819 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1820 he was a member of the Constituent Assembly of Maine and in 1821 he was secretary of the Senate of Maine.

In the congressional elections of 1820 he was in the fifth electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. He was the first Congressman of the district which he represented between 4 March 1821 and 3 March 1823. In the years 1822 and 1824 he was elected to Congress again in the third district of Maine. There he broke on March 4, 1823 from Mark Langdon Hill. Ebenezer Herrick was able to exercise his mandate until March 3, 1827. In the 1820s he joined the faction of President John Quincy Adams. His last years in Congress were overshadowed by the heated discussions between his party and the followers of the future President Andrew Jackson.

In 1826, Herrick gave up another candidacy. Between 1828 and 1829 he was a member of the Senate of Maine. After he retired from politics. Ebenezer Herrick died on 7 May 1839 in his birthplace of Lewiston. His son Anson took 1863-1865 the State of New York in Congress.

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