Aaron Matson (1770 – July 18, 1855) was a
United States representative
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from
New Hampshire
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. He was born in
Plymouth, Massachusetts
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. He moved to
Cheshire County, New Hampshire
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, where he was the county judge of probate.
Matson was a member of the
New Hampshire House of Representatives
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1806–1808, 1810–1814, 1817, and 1818, and a member of the
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1819–1821. He was elected as a
Democratic-Republican
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to the
Seventeenth Congress
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and reelected as an
Adams-Clay Republican
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to the
Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). After leaving Congress, he was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1827 and 1828. He died in
Newport, Vermont in 1855.
References
Aaron Matson (1770–1855)
1770 births
1855 deaths
People from Plymouth, Massachusetts
Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New Hampshire
Members of the New Hampshire House of Representatives
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