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Jeremiah Powell was an American politician who served as a member, and the second President of, the
Massachusetts Senate The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The Senate comprises 40 elected members from 40 single-member senatorial districts in the st ...
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Massachusetts Senate

Powell was elected the
President of the Massachusetts Senate The president of the Massachusetts Senate is the presiding officer. Unlike the United States Congress, in which the vice president of the United States is the ''ex officio'' president of the United States Senate, in Massachusetts, the president ...
on November 4, 1780 to fill the position after
Thomas Cushing Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution ...
resigned to become the Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts.


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Massachusetts state senators Presidents of the Massachusetts Senate 18th-century members of the Massachusetts General Court Year of death missing {{Massachusetts-MASenate-stub