Shearjashub Bourne

Shearjashub Bourne ( * June 14, 1746 in Barnstable, Massachusetts, † March 11, 1806 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1791 and 1795 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Shearjashub Bourne grew up during the British colonial period. Until 1764 he studied at Harvard College. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started working in Boston in this profession. At the same time he embarked on a political career. Between 1782 and 1785, and again from 1788 to 1790 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In 1788 he was a delegate to the meeting at which the state of Massachusetts ratified the Constitution of the United States. Politically, he was close to a member of the Pro- Administration Group of the federal government under President George Washington.

In the congressional elections of 1790 Bourne was chosen in the fifth electoral district of Massachusetts in the time which meets even in Philadelphia U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1791. After a re-election in the ninth district, he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1795 two legislative sessions. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Bourne served 1799-1806 as an appellate judge in Suffolk County. He died on March 11, 1806 in Boston.