John G. Palfrey
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John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 - April 26, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Palfrey completed preparatory studies in Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, New Hampshire, and was graduated from Harvard University in 1815. He studied theology and was ordained minister of Brattle Square Unitarian Church, Boston, June 17, 1818.
He was editor of the North American Review from 1835 to 1843. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1842 and 1843. He was Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, 1844-1848.
Palfrey was elected as a Whig to the Thirtieth Congress (March 4, 1847-March 3, 1849). He was an unsuccessful candidate on the Free-Soil ticket for reelection in 1848 to the Thirty-first Congress. He was Postmaster of Boston 1861-1867. As a writer he is best known by his History of New England to the Revolutionary War, in five volumes, of which the first appeared in 1859 and the last posthumously in 1890. He died in Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 26, 1881. He was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery.
[edit] External links
- Palfrey, John Gorham. History of New England (5 vol 1859-90), complete text
- Preface to The New Testament in the common Version, conformed to Griesbach's Standard Greek Text. at The DCL.
[edit] References
- John G. Palfrey at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
