Samuel C. Fessenden
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Samuel C. Fessenden | |
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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd district | |
In office March 4, 1861 – March 3, 1863 | |
Preceded by | Ezra B. French |
Succeeded by | James G. Blaine |
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Born | New Gloucester, Massachusetts, U.S. | March 7, 1815
Died | April 18, 1882 Stamford, Connecticut, U.S. | (aged 67)
Resting place | Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine, U.S. |
Political party | Republican Party |
Spouse | Mary Abigail Grosvenor Abbe |
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Samuel Clement Fessenden (March 7, 1815 – April 18, 1882) was an American abolitionist and United States Congressman from Maine.[1]
Early life and education
Born in New Gloucester, Massachusetts (now in Maine), Samuel Fessenden graduated from Bowdoin College in 1834 and from Bangor Theological Seminary in 1837.
Family
Samuel Clement Fessenden was the son of prominent abolitionist Samuel Fessenden and brother of Treasury Secretary William Pitt Fessenden and Congressman T. A. D. Fessenden. He was an uncle of Union Army generals Francis Fessenden and James D. Fessenden.
Samuel C. Fessenden married Mary Abigail Grosvenor Abbe. Their son, Joshua Abbe Fessenden, who was born in Rockland, Maine, served in the United States Cavalry beginning in 1862 and was wounded at the Battle of Chickamauga. His other son, Samuel, also born in Rockland, was appointed 2nd lieutenant in the 5th Maine battery on January 18, 1865, and was a lawyer and politician in Stamford, Connecticut.
Career
He was ordained and installed as pastor of the Second Congregational Church of Thomaston, Maine, from 1837 to 1856. He then established the Maine Evangelist and began to study law. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing in 1858, eventually becoming judge of the Rockland municipal court.[2]
He was elected as a Republican to the 37th Congress, serving from March 4, 1861, to March 3, 1863. During his time as a congressman, he continued to be a staunch Unionist and opponent of slavery.[3] After leaving office, he served as an examiner in the United States Patent Office from 1865 to 1879 and then the United States consul at Saint John, New Brunswick, from 1879 to 1881.[citation needed]
Death
Fessenden died in Stamford, Connecticut, in 1882. He is buried in Evergreen Cemetery in Portland, Maine.[4]
References
- ^ Court, Connecticut Supreme; Errors, Connecticut Supreme Court of (1908). Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut. State of Connecticut. p. 725.
- ^ "Bioguide Search". bioguide.congress.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
- ^ Fessenden, Samuel Clement (1862). Issues of the rebellion. Speech of Hon S.C. Fessenden, of Maine. Delivered in the House of Representatives, January 20, 1862. The Library of Congress. Washington, D.C., Scammell & Co., printers.
- ^ "FESSENDEN, Samuel Clement | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives". history.house.gov. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
Sources
- United States Congress. "Samuel C. Fessenden (id: F000097)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
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