Ebenezer Herrick (October 21, 1785 – May 7, 1839) was a

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from

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, father of Anson Herrick.

Biography

Born in

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(then a district of Massachusetts), Herrick attended the common schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in

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. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits 1814–1818. He served as member of the

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in 1819, served as member of the convention which formed the first constitution of the State of Maine in 1820, and was Secretary of the

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in 1821. Herrick was elected as a

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to the Seventeenth Congress, elected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an

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candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827). He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1826, and served as a member of the Maine Senate. He died in Lewiston on May 7, 1839, and was interred in the Old Herrick Burying Ground.

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