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  Whitman, Ezekiel
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NameEzekiel Whitman
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East Bridgewater, Massachusetts , United States
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Born March 09, 1776
Died August 01, 1866 (90 years)
ContributorThomas Walker
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Mar 08, 2024 10:42am
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InfoWHITMAN, Ezekiel, a Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine; born in East Bridgewater, Mass., March 9, 1776; was graduated from Brown University, Providence, R.I., in 1795; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced in New Gloucester, Maine (until 1820 a district of Massachusetts), 1799-1807 and in Portland, Maine, 1807-1852; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1806 to the Tenth Congress; elected as a Federalist from Massachusetts to the Eleventh Congress (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1811); member of the executive council in 1815 and 1816; elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); delegate to the convention in 1819 that framed the first State constitution of Maine; elected to the Seventeenth Congress from Maine and served from March 4, 1821, to June 1, 1822, when he resigned; judge of the court of common pleas of Maine 1822-1841; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1838 to the Twenty-sixth Congress; served as chief justice of the Massachusetts State Supreme Court 1841-1848; retired in 1852 and returned to East Bridgewater, Mass., where he died on August 1, 1866.


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  01/25/1839 ME US Senate Lost 1.46% (-59.22%)
  09/10/1838 ME District 2 Lost 49.62% (-0.76%)
  01/16/1829 ME US Senate Lost 0.62% (-67.08%)
  01/14/1829 ME US Senate - Special Election Lost 9.20% (-44.79%)
  01/18/1827 ME US Senate Lost 16.07% (-36.31%)
  09/09/1822 ME Governor Lost 26.13% (-43.65%)
  09/10/1821 ME Governor Lost 28.02% (-24.74%)
  11/07/1820 ME - 2nd Eastern Won 74.15% (+49.49%)
  03/15/1820 ME - 2nd Eastern Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  11/02/1818 MA - 2nd Eastern Won 54.05% (+8.10%)
  11/04/1816 MA - 2nd Eastern Won 51.51% (+3.02%)
  11/07/1814 MA - 2nd Eastern Lost 35.29% (-29.43%)
  04/01/1811 MA District 15 (Cumberland) - 2nd Trial Lost 46.76% (-6.48%)
  11/05/1810 MA District 15 (Cumberland) - 1st Trial Won 47.80% (+0.00%)
  11/07/1808 MA District 15 (Cumberland) Won 50.86% (+1.72%)
  11/03/1806 MA District 15 (Cumberland) Lost 47.47% (-5.06%)
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