George Grennell Jr. (December 25, 1786 – November 19, 1877) was a U.S. Congressman from

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. He was born in

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on December 25, 1786, to parents George and Lydia (Stevens) Grennell. He attended

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and graduated from

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in 1808. He was admitted to the bar in 1811 and served as prosecuting attorney for Franklin County 1820–1828. Grennell was a member of the Massachusetts State Senate 1825–1827. Grennell was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first through the Twenty-fourth Congresses and reelected as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1839). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1838. Grennell served as a trustee of

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1838–1859, a judge of probate 1849–1853, clerk of Franklin County Courts 1853–1865, and the first president of the Troy and Greenfield Railroad. Grennell married twice: first to Helen Adelle Blake in 1814 and second to Eliza Seymour Perkins in 1820. His son George Blake Grinnell became a noted businessman. Grennell died in

November 19, 1877 and was interred in Greenfield's Green River Cemetery.

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