Paine Wingate

Paine Wingate ( born May 14, 1739 Amesbury, Essex County, Massachusetts, † March 7, 1838 in Stratham, New Hampshire) was an American politician who represented the state of New Hampshire in both chambers of Congress. Previously, he had already participated in the Continental Congress as a delegate from New Hampshire.

Paine Wingate came in 1739 in the colonial Province of Massachusetts Bay to the world; his father worked there as a pastor. 1759 he graduated from Harvard College. Four years later he was himself ordained as a minister of the Kongregationalkirche, after which he took a pastorate in Hampton Falls (New Hampshire).

1776 Wingate laid down his church office. He moved to Stratham, where he worked as a farmer. In the wake of the American Revolution in 1781 he took part in the Constitutional Convention of the State of New Hampshire. As a result, he became a deputy in the 1783 House of Representatives from New Hampshire and in 1788 a delegate to the Continental Congress, which held its meetings at this time in New York.

After the creation of the U.S. Congress as a bicameral parliament Wingate Paine and John Langdon was elected to the Senate of the United States as the first representative of New Hampshire. Wingate fell while the Class 2 seat with a four -year term of 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793. When this was over, he did not run again, but applied instead to one of the mandates of his state in the House of Representatives. Here Wingate completed a two year term of office of 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795. He belonged to the anti - Administration Group, which later became the Democratic- Republican Party was born.

As a result, Wingate returned to New Hampshire. He sat there in 1795, again in the state legislature and served from 1798 to 1809 as a judge of the Superior Court (now the Supreme Court ) of New Hampshire. Then he withdrew from politics and went back to his farming activities. At the time of his death in March 1838, he was the last living delegates to the Continental Congress. Also were all U.S. senators, who had listened with him the first Congress, previously passed away.