George Partridge

George Partridge ( born February 8, 1740 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † July 7, 1828 ) was an American politician. In the years 1789 and 1790, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives; previously he was a delegate to the Continental Congress.

Career

George Partridge grew up during the British colonial period. He attended Harvard College to 1762. After that, he taught for some time as a teacher in Kingston. He also studied theology, but without being involved in this profession. In the 1770s to Partridge joined the American Revolution. In the years 1774 and 1775 he was a member of the Provincial Congress. From 1775 to 1779 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. Since 1777 to 1812 he served as sheriff in Plymouth County. From 1779 to 1785 he took part in the meetings of the Continental Congress. In 1788 he was again a deputy in the State Parliament. Politically, he was a member of the Pro- Administration Group near future President George Washington.

In the congressional elections of 1789 Partridge was selected in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. This he held until his resignation on 14 August 1790. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, George Partridge Partridge dedicated to the Seminary in Duxbury, which he promoted. He died on 7 July 1828 in his birthplace of Duxbury.