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Senate Years of Service: 1829-1835 Party: Anti-Jacksonian
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SPRAGUE, Peleg, (grandfather of Charles Franklin Sprague),
a Representative and a Senator from Maine; born in Duxbury, Mass., April 27,
1793; graduated from Harvard University in 1812; studied law at Litchfield, Conn.; admitted to the
bar in 1815 and commenced practice in Augusta, Maine; moved to Hallowell, Kennebec County,
Maine, in 1817 and continued the practice of law; member, Maine house of representatives
1821-1822; corporate member of the Maine Historical Society; elected to the Nineteenth, Twentieth,
and Twenty-first Congresses and served from March 4, 1825, until his resignation, effective March 3,
1829, having been elected Senator; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4,
1829, to January 1, 1835, when he resigned; again resumed the practice of law in Boston, Mass., in
1840; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1840; United States district judge of Massachusetts
1841-1865; died in Boston, Mass., October 13, 1880; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery,
Cambridge, Mass.
BibliographyDictionary of American Biography;
Sprague, Peleg. Speeches and Addresses. Boston: Philips, Sampson & Co., 1858.
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