Jonathan Grout

Jonathan Grout (* July 23, 1737 in Lunenburg, Worcester County, Massachusetts, † September 8, 1807 in Dover, New Hampshire ) was an American politician. Between 1789 and 1791, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jonathan Grout grew up during the British colonial period. In the years 1757-1760 he took part in a campaign against the then French Canada. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Petersham to work in this profession. In the 1770s he joined the American Revolution. During the Revolutionary War he was a soldier in the Continental Army. In the years 1781, 1784 and 1787 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; In 1788 he was a member of the State Senate. In the same year he was a member of the Assembly, which ratified the Constitution of the United States for Massachusetts. Politically, he was a member of the Anti- Administration faction in opposition to the first federal government under President George Washington.

In the congressional elections of 1789 Grout for the eighth seat from Massachusetts was elected to the Council, meeting at that time still in New York U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. Until March 3, 1791, he was able to complete a term in Congress. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Jonathan Grout is no longer politically have appeared. He died on September 8, 1807 in Dover.