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Senate Years of Service: 1796-1799 Party: Federalist
SEDGWICK, Theodore, a Delegate, a Representative, and a Senator from Massachusetts; born
in West Hartford, Conn., May 9, 1746; attended Yale College; studied theology
and law; admitted to the bar in 1766 and commenced practice in Great
Barrington, Mass.; moved to Sheffield, Mass.; during the Revolutionary War
served in the expedition against Canada in 1776; member, State house of
representatives 1780, 1782-1783; member, State senate 1784-1785; Member of the
Continental Congress 1785, 1786, and 1788; member, State house of
representatives 1787-1788, and served as speaker; delegate to the State
convention that adopted the Federal Constitution in 1788; elected to the First
and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1789, until his
resignation in June 1796; elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate
to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Caleb Strong and served from
June 11, 1796, to March 3, 1799; served as President pro tempore of the Senate
during the Fifth Congress; elected to the Sixth Congress (March 4, 1799-March
3, 1801); Speaker of the House of Representatives, Sixth Congress; judge of the
supreme court of Massachusetts 1802-1813; died in Boston, Mass., January 24,
1813; interment in the family cemetery, Stockbridge, Mass.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
The Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law; Welch,
Richard.
Theodore Sedgwick, Federalist: A Political Portrait.
Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan University Press, 1965.
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