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Senate Years of Service: 1799-1800 Party: Federalist
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DEXTER, Samuel, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., on
May 14, 1761; graduated from Harvard College in 1781; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1784
and commenced practice in Lunenburg, Mass.; member, State house of representatives 1788-1790;
elected to the Third Congress (March 4, 1793-March 3, 1795); elected as a Federalist to the United
States Senate and served from March 4, 1799, until May 30, 1800, when he resigned to enter the
Cabinet; appointed Secretary of War by President John Adams 1800; appointed Secretary of the
Treasury 1801; resumed the practice of law in Washington, D.C.; moved to Boston, Mass., in 1805
and continued the practice of law; declined the appointment of Minister to Spain in 1815;
unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1816; died in Athens, Greene County, N.Y., May 4, 1816;
interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Sargent, Lucius. Reminiscences of Samuel Dexter. Boston: H.W. Dutton and Son,
1857.
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