Moses Macdonald

Moses Macdonald ( born April 8, 1815 in Limerick, York County, Massachusetts, † October 18, 1869 in Saco, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1855 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in present-day Maine Moses Macdonald enjoyed a good basic education. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1837 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Biddeford. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. In the years 1841, 1842 and 1845, he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine; In 1845 he was president of this chamber. In 1847 he was elected to the State Senate. From 1847 to 1850 he served as State Treasurer of Finance of Maine.

1850 Macdonald was the first electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1851 the successor of Elbridge Gerry. After a re-election in 1852 he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1855 two legislative sessions. Between 1851 and 1853 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with claims to the federal government from the revolutionary period. His time in Congress was determined by the discussions leading to the Civil War, and it was going on at all, the question of slavery.

In 1857 Moses Macdonald was appointed by President James Buchanan appointed head of the customs authority at the port of Portland. This office he held until 1861. Thereafter, he retired from politics. Moses Macdonald died on 18 October 1869 in Saco.