Joshua Gage

Joshua Gage ( born August 7 1763 in Harwich, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, † January 24, 1831 in Augusta, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1817 and 1819 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Gage attended the public schools of his home and was then engaged in trade. In 1795 he moved to Augusta in the former Maine District of the State of Massachusetts. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. In the years 1805 and 1807, he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts; in the years 1813 and 1815 he was a member of the State Senate. Since 1810 until his death in 1831 he was treasurer in Kennebec County, which until 1820 was still part of Massachusetts, and then became part of the new state of Maine.

In the congressional elections of 1816 Gage in the 19th electoral district of Massachusetts was in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel S. Conner on March 4, 1817. Until March 3, 1819, he was able to complete a term in Congress. In the years 1822 and 1823 Joshua Gage was a member of the Governing Council of the State of Maine. He died on January 24, 1831 in Augusta, where he was also buried.