Peleg Sprague (Maine politician)

Peleg Sprague (* April 27, 1793 in Duxbury, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, † October 13, 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician who represented the state of Maine in both chambers of Congress.

Peleg Sprague made ​​in 1812 graduated from Harvard University. He then studied in Litchfield (Connecticut), the law was taken in August 1815 in the Bar Association and started in, then part of Massachusetts yet to Augusta, now the capital of Maine, to practice as a lawyer. In 1817 he moved his office according to Hallowell.

After the founding of the State of Maine's Sprague was elected to the House of Representatives, where he served from 1821 to 1822. March 4, 1825 to March 3, 1829, he sat for the fourth electoral district of Maine in the House of Representatives of the United States. He resigned his seat as an MEP to follow the previously retired John Chandler as a U.S. Senator. In this chamber he remained until his resignation on January 1, 1835; during this time he was first a member of the National Republican Party, and later emerged from the Whigs.

After his retirement from Congress Sprague worked as a lawyer in Boston. Politically, he was only once worked, as he belonged in the presidential election in 1840 for the Whigs to the Electoral College, and his voice gave the then victorious Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. His successor as U.S. president, John Tyler, Sprague nominated on 15 July 1841, the judge at the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts. He was confirmed by the Senate on the following day, took office directly at it and it held until 13 March 1865. On this day he retired. Sprague died in 1880 in Boston and was buried in Cambridge.

Peleg Sprague was the grandfather of Congressman Charles F. Sprague ( 1857-1902 ). He was with the same politicians in the State of New Hampshire (1756-1800) related distantly. John Sprague (ca. 1630-1676 ) was the ancestor of both the male line.