Martin Kinsley

Martin Kinsley ( born June 2, 1754 Bridgewater, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † June 20, 1835 in Roxbury, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1819 and 1821 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Kinsley went to 1778 from Harvard College and then studied medicine. During the Revolutionary War, he worked temporarily in replenishment procurement of American troops. In the years 1787 to 1792 he was Treasurer of the City Hardwick. Between 1787 and 1806 he was several times as a delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts; in 1814 he was a member of the State Senate. From 1810 to 1811 he participated in the Government of Massachusetts. In 1811 he was Judge of Appeal and thereafter restructuring judge.

Kinsley was a member of the late 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1818 he was in the 17th electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Wilson on March 4, 1819. Until March 3, 1821 he was able to complete a term in Congress; then his district was dissolved. A candidacy in another constituency in 1820 remained unsuccessful.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Martin Kinsley is no longer politically have appeared. He died on 20 June 1835 in Roxbury, now part of Boston.