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Senate Years of Service: 1826-1829; 1829-1835 Party: Adams; Anti-Jackson
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Massachusetts Arts Commission
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SILSBEE, Nathaniel, a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Salem, Mass., on
January 14, 1773; attended private schools; went to sea and became a sea captain, ship owner and
merchant; held several local offices in Salem and Boston; elected to the Fifteenth and Sixteenth
Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); was not a candidate for renomination; elected to the
State house of representatives in 1821; member, State senate 1823-1825, serving as president;
presidential elector in 1824; elected to the United States Senate in 1826 to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of James Lloyd; reelected in 1829 and served from May 31, 1826, to March 3, 1835;
declined to be a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Commerce (Twenty-third
Congress); Whig presidential elector in 1836; resumed mercantile pursuits in Salem, Mass., where he
died on July 14, 1850; interment in Harmony Grove Cemetery.
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