The Political Graveyard: Essex County, Mass.

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Essex County
Massachusetts

Politicians who were born in Essex County

Amesbury: Josiah Bartlett, 1729 — Paine Wingate, 1739 — Daniel Blaisdell, 1762

Andover: Abiel Foster, 1735 — Simon Frye, 1737 — Samuel Osgood, 1748 — Amos Abbott, 1786 — Alson B. Abbott, 1844 — Arthur S. Hardy, 1847 — Carroll Clark Hincks, 1889

Beverly: Henry Bartlett, 1771 — Joseph Dane, 1778 — Joshua Herrick, 1793 — John Appleton, 1815 — Asa F. Smith, c.1847 — William Caleb Loring, 1851 — William Phillips, 1878 — Clinton E. MacEachran, 1887 — Arnold Abbott, 1924

Bradford, Haverhill: William Cogswell, 1838

Danvers: Samuel Putnam, 1768 — Daniel P. King, 1801 — Grenville M. Dodge, 1831

Essex: Willfred W. Lufkin, 1879

Gloucester: Winthrop Sargent, 1755 — James Elliott, 1775 — Timothy Davis, 1821 — Fitz J. Babson, 1828 — Edward Howard Haskell, 1845 — Frank E. Davis, 1851 — Roger W. Babson, 1875 — Benjamin A. Smith II, 1916

Haverhill: Gurdon Saltonstall, 1666 — Phillips White, 1729 — Bailey Bartlett, 1750 — Peter Carleton, 1755 — Leverett Saltonstall, 1783 — James H. Duncan, 1793 — J. Wingate Carr, c.1796 — John Greenleaf Whittier, 1807 — Milton Reed, 1848 — Arthur L. Nason, 1872 — Lewis R. Hovey, 1874 — Richard J. McCormick, 1888 — Charles Albert Proctor McAree, 1908 — Benjamin B. Priest, 1910 — Karen McCarthy, 1947

Hog Island, Ipswich: Rufus Choate, 1799

Ipswich: Nathan Dane, 1752 — John Russ, 1767 — Joseph Dane, 1768 — Mark Harris, 1779 — James Appleton, 1785 — Nathan D. Appleton, 1794 — Augustine Heard, 1827 — Randolph Appleton Kidder, 1913

Kent's Island, Newbury: Amos Kent, 1774

Lawrence: John H. Capstick, 1856 — Charles A. DeCourcy, 1857 — George A. Bunting, 1868 — Earl A. Smith, 1876 — Robert S. Maloney, 1881 — J. Rodney Ball, 1881 — George S. Miller, 1884 — James A. Donovan, 1889 — A. Lincoln Niditch, 1890 — James Philip Meehan, 1893 — Thomas J. Lane, 1898 — John J. Maginnis, c.1898 — Thomas M. Burke, 1898 — Walter A. Griffin, 1901 — Benjamin D. Burdick, 1903 — Sam J. Nahil, 1905 — James P. Kane, 1906 — Marietta Tree, 1917 — Endicott Peabody, 1920 — Andrew Augustine Caffrey, 1920

Lynn:

	Lynn, year not specified: Edward J. Clancy
	Lynn, 1700-1799: George Hood, 1794
	Lynn, 1800-1899: Edward S. Davis, 1808 — Peter T. Washburn, 1814 — Samuel M. Bubier, 1816 — John B. Alley, 1817 — Jacob M. Lewis, 1823 — William L. Baird, 1843 — George H. Newhall, 1850 — John R. Baldwin, 1854 — Eugene A. Besson, 1855 — Francis M. Mansfield, 1871 — Henry C. Attwill, 1872 — Frank A. Bayrd, 1873 — Frank G. Allen, 1874 — Philip A. Kiely, 1874 — Michael F. Phelan, 1875 — Charles N. Barney, 1875 — Henry Tilton Lummus, 1876 — William P. Connery, Jr., 1888 — William Dudley Pelley, 1890 — A. Prescott Barker, 1890 — Lawrence J. Connery, 1895 — William G. Hennessey, 1898 — M. Henry Wall, 1899
	Lynn, 1900-1999: Charles F. Haywood, 1903 — Stuart A. Tarr, 1908 — Edward J. Clancy — Timothy A. Bassett, 1947 — Patrick J. McManus, 1954

Lynnfield: Asa T. Newhall, 1850

Manchester: Albert J. Beveridge, Jr., 1908

Marblehead: Elbridge Gerry, 1744 — William Reed, 1776 — Joseph Story, 1779 — Albert Pierce, 1876

Merrimac: George W. Weymouth, 1850

Methuen: Joseph Hall, 1793 — John K. Tarbox, 1838 — James Michael Shannon, 1952

Methuen (part now in Lawrence): Joseph Robinson Bodwell, 1818

Middleton: John J. Ingalls, 1833

Nahant: William F. Johnson, 1819 — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr., 1902

Newbury: Theophilus Bradbury, 1739 — Francis Carr, 1751 — William H. Moody, 1853

Newburyport: Tristram Dalton, 1738 — John Lowell, 1743 — William Plumer, 1759 — Timothy Pilsbury, 1789 — Charles Dustin Coffin, 1805 — Eben F. Stone, 1822 — Aaron Augustus Sargent, 1827 — Charles P. H. Nason, 1842 — Elliott V. Richardson, 1868 — Cornelius F. Haley, 1875 — Edward E. Hicken, 1876 — Betty Arndt, 1920

North Andover: George B. Loring, 1817 — Isaac Ingalls Stevens, 1818 — Moses T. Stevens, 1825 — William J. Miller, 1899

Peabody: Michael James McDermott, 1894 — Nicholas Mavroules, 1929

Rockport: Waldo Babson, 1866 — Vermin Supreme, c.1960

Rowley: Samuel Tenney, 1748

Salem:

	Salem, 1700-1799: Stephen Higginson, 1743 — Timothy Pickering, 1745 — Benjamin Goodhue, 1748 — George Cabot, 1752 — Orchard Cook, 1763 — Jacob Crowninshield, 1770 — Benjamin W. Crowninshield, 1773 — Dudley Leavitt Pickman, 1779 — George Choate, 1796
	Salem, 1800-1899: Stephen Clarendon Phillips, 1801 — Stephen Palfrey Webb, 1804 — Nathaniel Hawthorne, 1804 — Daniel Needham, 1822 — Francis Mellus, 1824 — William C. Endicott, 1826 — William Gardner Choate, 1830 — Benjamin F. Farnham, 1831 — Joseph Hodges Choate, 1832 — George Emerson, 1848 — John Marshall Raymond, 1852 — Levi J. Law, 1854 — Leonard A. Bachelder, 1855 — Walter H. Creamer, 1860 — Frederick M. Davenport, 1866 — Walter Sherman Gifford, 1885 — George J. Bates, 1891 — Paul H. Douglas, 1892
	Salem, 1900-1999: William H. Bates, 1917 — John R. McCarthy, 1927 — Michael J. Harrington, 1936 — John F. Tierney, 1951

Salisbury: Caleb Cushing, 1800

Saugus: Jack H. Backman, 1922

Topsfield: Nathaniel Peabody, 1741 — Daniel Breck, 1788

Wenham: William Fisk, 1755

West Newbury: Addison Brown, 1830

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