Shepard Cary (July 3, 1805 – August 9, 1866) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Cary attended the common schools and moved with his parents to

Houlton, Maine Houlton is a town in and the county seat of Aroostook County, Maine, United States, on the Canada–United States border. As of the 2020 census, the town's population was 6,055. It is perhaps best known for being at the northern terminus of Int ...

, in 1822. He engaged in extensive lumber operations and also in agricultural and mercantile pursuits. He served as member of the

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in 1832, 1833 from 1839 to 1842, 1848, 1849, and 1862, and in the

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in 1843 and from 1850 to 1853. Cary was elected as a

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to the Twenty-eighth Congress. He took his seat on May 10, 1844, and served until March 3, 1845. He was the Liberal (anti-Maine Law, not to be confused with the Liberty Party) candidate for governor in 1854. Cary died in

on August 9, 1866, and was interred in Evergreen Cemetery.

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