Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn
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Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (March 3, 1783 – July 29, 1851) was an American lawyer, author, statesman and soldier. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, the son of Henry Dearborn by his second wife. He attended the common schools and went to Williams College for two years and then graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1803. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Salem, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine (which was then a part of Massachusetts). He was the collector of customs in Boston from 1812-1829 and served as brigadier general commanding the Volunteers in the defenses of Boston Harbor during the War of 1812.
He was a delegate to the Massachusetts state constitutional convention in 1820. He was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1829 and a member of state senate in 1830. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 10th District to the Twenty-second Congress (1831-1833). He was defeated running for reelection in 1832.
He was president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the author of many books. He died in Portland, Maine and is interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in Roxbury, Massachusetts.
External link
- biographic sketch at U.S. Congress website (http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=D000179)