Ezekiel Whitman

Ezekiel Whitman ( born March 9, 1776 in East Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts; † August 1, 1866 ) was an American politician. Between 1809 and 1821 he was several times for the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives. In the years 1821 and 1822 he represented there also the state of Maine.

Career

Ezekiel Whitman attended until 1795, the Brown University in Providence (Rhode Iceland ). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1799 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in New Gloucester. In 1807 he moved to Portland, where he, less its congress and judges Times, worked as a lawyer until 1852. Both cities belonged until 1820 to Massachusetts and then came to the new state of Maine.

Whitman was a member of the Federalist Party. In 1806 he ran for the first time, yet unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. In the congressional elections of 1808, he was then in the 15th electoral district of Massachusetts, who was lying in the District of Maine, in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1809, to succeed Daniel Ilsley. Until March 3, 1811, he was initially able to complete only one term in Congress. Between 1815 and 1816 Whitman was a member of the Governing Council of Massachusetts. In 1816 he was re-elected for the 15th District in the House of Representatives. After a re-election in 1818 he was able to spend two more 1821 legislative periods for Massachusetts in Congress between 4 March 1817 and 3 March.

In connection with the admission of new states came into the Union in 1820 to the Missouri Compromise. One result of this agreement was the elimination of the District of Maine from Massachusetts, and the establishment of the new State of Maine. In 1819 Whitman was a delegate to the meeting at which the constitution of the new state was prepared. In the congressional elections of 1820 Whitman was elected to Congress again in the second electoral district of Maine. There he represented until his resignation on June 1, 1822 the new state.

Between 1822 and 1841 was Ezekiel Whitman appeal judges in Maine. In 1838 he unsuccessfully sought a return to Congress. Between 1841 and 1848 he was chairman of judges ( Chief Justice ) of the Supreme Court of Maine. Until 1852 he worked as a lawyer on. Then Whitman withdrew into retirement, which he spent in his birthplace of East Bridgewater. There he died on August 1, 1866 at the age of 90 years.