XLIII An Important List Cabinet Officers, Members of Congress, and Members of the Massachusetts Legislature, from Charlestown, covering One Hundred Years. WAS glad to see in the last issue of The Charlestown Enterprise a list of persons who served in the Charlestown City Government, made out by William H. Whitmore, chairman of the record commissioners of the city of Boston, and published now for the purpose of obtaining information needful to carry out the design of the City Government to put in print short biographical notices of past officials. I have in my possession an interesting paper prepared by my friend, C. B. Tillinghast, the genial and obliging librarian at the State Library, and presented to me some time ago, which I have intended to place among the historical notices and recollections of the old town, and this perhaps is the best time to do so. It is valuable information, I am sure, and I trust it will be appreciated by those who will now have an opportunity to look it over and preserve it for future reference. MEMBERS OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT, FROM Nathaniel Gorham, Senate, 1780, '90; House, 1781-'87 (Speaker, 1781, '82, '85); Council, 1788, '89; Conventions, 1779, '80, '88; Congress (Continental), 1782, '83, '85-'87 (elected President of the Congress, June 6, 1786). Timothy Tufts.... House, 1780 Captain Thomas Harris, House, 1788-'91, 1801-'08, '12, '13; also State Treasurer, 1810. Captain Thomas Harris, Jr., House, 1816, '19-'21, '23, '24; Convention, 1820. Samuel Dexter, Jr., Senate, 1792; Council, 1804, '05; Aaron Putnam... Matthew Bridge... House, 1803-'08; Senate, 1809-'12 House, 1800 William Austin, House, 1811-'14, '16, '27, '34; Senate, 1821-23; Convention, 1820. Daniel Tufts .. ... Joseph Hurd.. House, 1811, '12 ..House, 1814 House, 1813, '14 Joseph Tufts... .House, 1814 Major Timothy Walker, House, 1815, '18; Senate, 1822 Philemon R. Russell....House, 1816, '19-'24, '26-'28 Leonard Moody Parker, House, 1816, '25, '28, '29; Senate, 1818-20, '26, '27; Convention, 1820. [Afterwards in Legislature from Shirley.] Seth Knowles, House, 1816, '22, '23; Senate, 1824, '25; Convention, 1820. Asahel Stearns, Senate, 1813 (to fill a vacancy), '30, '31; House, 1817; Congress, 1816, '17. Oliver Holden .... House, 1818, '25, '26, '28-'33 Timothy Thompson, Jr., House, 1819, '20, '39; Con Samuel Jaques, Jr. .. ..House, 1825 William C. Jarvis, House, 1826, '27 (Speaker both Benjamin Thompson, House, 1830, '31, '33-'36; Senate, 1841; Congress, 1845-'47, '51, '52. Council, 1836. ..House, 1830, '32, '33 House, 1832, '34-36 House, 1831 Nathaniel Austin, House, 1831, '38; Senate, 1832-'35; Benjamin Brintnall... .House, 1841 Ichabod Lindsey.. Frederick Robinson, Senate, 1842, '43 (President in 1843). [Formerly in Legislature from Marblehead.] William Sawyer Seth J. Thomas. John Sanborn.. ... ... House, 1842, '43 House, 1842 House, 1843 Freeman Foster Tilden ... Philip Babb Holmes Christopher Columbus Dean.. Absalom Rand.... Abraham Rand Thompson, Council, idential Elector, 1844. House, 1850, '51 Henry Parker Fairbanks.. House, 1847; Council, 1853 Oliver Smith ..... James Munroe Stone, House, 1850, '51, '64-'67 (Speaker in '66, '67). Edward Thorndike John L. Taggard . John Quincy Adams Griffin, House, 1855. [Afterwards member from Malden.] C. H. J. Hamlen.. House, 1855 ..House, 1855 Timothy Thompson Sawyer, House, 1857; Senate, 1858 |