Stephen Longfellow

Stephen Longfellow ( born June 23, 1775 in Gorham, Massachusetts; † August 2, 1849 in Portland, Maine ) was an American politician. Between 1823 and 1825 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Stephen Longfellow was born in Gorham, which belonged at this time to Massachusetts and in 1820 fell to the then newly created state of Maine. He studied until 1798 at Harvard University. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1801 admitted to the bar he began in Portland to work in his new profession. In the years 1814 and 1815 he was a member of the General Court of Massachusetts. Politically, he was a member of the Federalist Party. From 1811 to 1817 he was also on the board of Bowdoin College.

Between 1814 and 1815 he was a delegate at a conference in Hartford, on the advice to the New England States about a possible exit from the United States. This plan was not implemented then. In the 1820s lunge Fellow joined the faction of President John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay. In the congressional elections of 1822 he was appointed as their candidate in the second electoral district of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1823, to succeed Mark Harris. Since he resigned in 1824 to further candidacy, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1825.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Longfellow again worked as a lawyer. In 1826 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Maine. Between 1817 and 1836 Longfellow was also curator of the Bowdoin College. In 1834, he also served as president of the Maine Historical Society. Longfellow was married to Zilpah Wadsworth. One of his children was the writer Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Stephen Longfellow died on August 2, 1849 in Portland.