Zeno Scudder

Zeno Scudder ( born August 18, 1807 in Osterville, Barnstable County, Massachusetts, † June 26, 1857 in Barnstable, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1854 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Zeno Scudder attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent law studies and his 1836 was admitted to a lawyer, he began to work in Falmouth in this profession. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Whig Party launched a political career. In the years 1846-1848 he was a member and President of the Senate of Massachusetts.

In the congressional elections of 1850 Scudder was in the tenth constituency of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Joseph Grinnell on March 4, 1851. After a re-election, he could remain until his resignation on March 4, 1854 in Congress. Since 1853 he represented there as a follower of William Appleton the first district of his state. His time in Congress was marked by the events leading up to the Civil War.

Scudder's resignation was an accident, whose consequences he never recover. He died on June 26, 1857 in Barnstable, and was buried in his birthplace of Osterville.

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