John Locke (Massachusetts)

John Locke ( born February 14, 1764 in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, † March 29, 1855 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1829 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Locke attended the Andover Academy and then studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). Then he taught for some time even as a teacher. This was followed up in 1792 to study at Harvard University. After studying law and his 1796 was admitted to the bar he began in Ashby to work in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1804, 1805, 1813 and 1823, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1820 he was a delegate at a meeting to revise the State Constitution. In the 1820s he joined the movement against the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party.

In the congressional elections of 1822 Locke was in the sixth electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Clesson Allen on March 4, 1823. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1829 three legislative periods. These were determined by the fierce debate between supporters and opponents of Andrew Jackson. In 1828 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives John Locke practiced as a lawyer again. In 1830 he was elected to the Massachusetts Senate; In 1831 he belonged to the Government (State Executive Council ) to. Between 1837 and 1849 he lived in Lowell. He then moved to Boston, where he died on 29 March 1855.

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