Thomas Cushing II (1694 – April 1746) was an American

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and

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who served as

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from 1742 to 1745. One of his seven children was his son

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 ...

, future lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.

Archives and records

Thomas Cushing waste book
at Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.

References

1694 births 1746 deaths 18th-century American merchants Massachusetts lawyers Members of the colonial Massachusetts House of Representatives Politicians from Boston Cushing family Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (colonial period) Merchants from colonial Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub