George Thatcher

George Thatcher ( born April 12, 1754 Yarmouth, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, † April 6, 1824 in Biddeford, Maine) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1789 and 1801, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Thatcher enjoyed a private education and then studied until 1776 at Harvard College. After a subsequent study of law and was admitted to the Bar 's 1778 he began to work in this profession in York in present-day Maine. Since 1782, he lived in Biddeford. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1787 and 1789 he was a delegate to the Continental Congress. In addition to his deputies activity Thatcher held 1792-1800, a judge in the district of the later state of Maine, who was then still belonged to Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1789 Thatcher was elected in the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the Council, meeting at this time in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. After five re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1801 six legislative periods. He took one after the sixth, eighth, twelfth and the fourteenth district of his state. During his time in Congress in the first eleven additional articles were ratified the Constitution of the United States. Since the late 1790s, Thatcher was a member of the Federalist Party, founded by Alexander Hamilton. From 1797 to 1799 he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. In 1800, the new federal capital, Washington DC was related.

In 1800, George Thatcher gave up a new Congress candidacy. Subsequently he served until 1820 as a judge on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1819 he was a delegate part in the Constituent Assembly of the new State of Maine. From 1820 to 1824 he was judge of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court He died on 6 April 1824 in Biddeford.