Politicians of the Province of Massachusetts

This is a list of politicians that lived during the colony of Massachusetts in general. The colony of Massachusetts went through three stages before in became a state. The first settlement of Massachusetts was Plymouth Colony which lasted from 1620 to 1691. Then the Massachusetts Bay Colony was formed and lasted from 1630 to 1691. After the Massachusetts Bay Colony came the Provence of Massachusetts Bay which lasted from 1691 to 1780.

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* **Hon. Maj. Gen. Humphrey Atherton (1608-1661)**, Justice of the Peace, Town Selectmen ;1638, Treasurer in 1638, Speaker of the Massachusetts House, 1653,;Leader of the Court of Deputies, 1653; Assistant Governor of the General Court of Massachusetts 1639-1641

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* **Gov. Richard Bellingham (c.1592-1672)**, 8th, 16th & 18th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
* **Hon. Thomas Boardman (1601-1673),** Deputy and Representative from Salem
* **Gov. William Bradford (1590-1657)**, 2nd, 5th 9th & 11th Governor of the Plymouth Colony, Commissioner of the United Colonies, a signer of the Mayflower Compact
* **Gov. Simon Bradstreet (1603/4-1697)**, 20th & 21st Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Secretary of Massachusetts Bay Colony and Member of the Council of Assistants
* **Hon. Lt. Thomas Burnham (1623-1694)**, Selectman of Ipswich, 1647 and on town committees; Deputy to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts,1683, 1684 and 1685
* **Hon. Col. Theophilus Burrill (1669-1737)**, Treasurer of Salem; Representatives to the Massachusetts House of Representatives from Salem, member of the Governor's Council, Councilor of a Committee appointed to repair Kittery and view the situation; Justice of the Peace of the counties of Essex and Suffolk; Special Justice of the Pleas; Selectmen of Salem for eleven year, Town Clerk of Salem

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* **Gov. John Carver (bef.1584-1621)**, 1st Governor of Plymouth Colony
* **Hon. Col. Judge John Chandler III (1665-1743)**, Commissioner of Peace for almost 40 years, and for seven years he was of His Majesty's Council
* **Hon. Samuel Chandler (1674-1743)**, Representatives from Concord 1729-1736, 1739
* **Hon. John Choate, Esq. (1765-1838)**, Representatives from Ipswich in 1816, 1819, 1823
* **Hon. Dea. Stephen Choate (1727-1815)**, Representative from Ipswich, Massachusetts on 29 Jul 1774 to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts; elected Treasurer, 1793
* **Hon. Capt. Thomas Choate (1671-1745)**, Representative from Ipswich
* **Hon. Thomas Clarke (1599-1697)**, Representative from Plymouth, Plymouth County
* **Hon. Rev. Robert Clements (1595-1658)**, Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, Commissioner of Essex County; Commissioner to End Small Causes
* **Gov. Mathew Cradock (-1641)**, 1st Governor of Plymouth Colony
* **Hon. Capt. Jacob Crowninshield (1770-1808)**, Member of the Massachusetts Senate, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts 2nd district

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* **Hon. Francis Dana (1743-1811)**, United States Minister to Russia, Associate, Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
* **Hon. Richard Dana (1700-1772)**, Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives for Marblehead
* **Hon. Nicholas Danforth (1589-1638)**, Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay General Court; on two committees
* **Hon. Thomas Danforth , Esq. (1623-1699)**, 9th and last Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Lord Proprietor and President of the Provence of Maine; Assistant to the Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; one of the commissioners of the United Colonies of New England; Justice of Massachusetts Bay Colony Superior Court,; Clerk of Cambridge; Recorder of Deeds for Middlesex County, Deputy to the Massachusetts General Court; Treasurer of Harvard College, Clerk of the Harvard Overseers
* **Gov. Thomas Dudley (1576-1653)**, 3rd, 7th, 11th & 14th Govern of of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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* **Gov. John Endecott (bef.1600-1664/65)**, 1st, 10th, 13th & 17th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; Commissioner of the United Colonies for Massachusetts Bay

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* **Capt. George Fairbanks (1619-1681)**, Selectmen and first settler of Medway, Massachusetts
* **Hon. Capt. Hopstill Foster (1620-1676)**, Treasurer of Dorchester, Massachusetts; Representative to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts; Commissioner for small causes; Selectmen of Dorchester
* **Hon. Capt. William French (1603-1681)**, Co Founder, proprietor and 1st Representative of Billerica, Massachusetts

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* **Hon. Benjamin Hall (1731-c.1817)**, Representatives from Medford, 1770-1772, 1774
* **Hon. Ebenezer Hall, Jr. (1771-1851)**, Representatives from Medford, 1799, 1800
* **Hon. Col. Elias Hasket (1670-),** 12th Governor of the Bahamas from 1700 to 1701
* **Gov. Thomas Hinckley (1618-1706),** 14th and last Governor of Plymouth Colony; Representative; Magistrate and Assistant; Deputy Governor of Massachsuetts; Commissioner of the board of Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies; Councilor
* **Hon. Col. John Haynes (1594-1654)**, Selectman for Cambridge on 3 Feb 1634- 1635; on the committee to oversee military matters; was on the Committee on boundary between Boston and Charlestown on 4 Mar 1634 and 1635; Selectman for Cambridge between 3 Feb 1634 and 1635; appointed on 25 Sep 1634 to “oversee the ammunition house to be built at New Town; appointed on 13 Dec 1636 colonel of regiment for Charlestown, Watertown, Cambridge, Concord, and Dedham, Massachusetts; Assistant to the General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1634 and 1636; Magistrate of the courts of Cambridge, Watertown, Charlestown, Medford, and Concord, Massachusetts; 5th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from 1635 to 1646; Assistant to the Court of Connecticut 1637, 1638, 1642, and 1648; Magistrate to the Connecticut Particular Court, 1693-46 and 1648-49; 1st Governor to the Colony of Connecticut, 1639, 1641, 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651, and 1653; Deputy Governor to the Colony of Connecticut, 1640, 1644, 1650; Connecticut Commissioner to the United Colonies, 1642 and 1643 and 1646
* **Hon. Maj. Judge William Haythorne (1606-1681)**, Assistant Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1st Speaker of the Court of Salem
* **Hon. John Humphrey (c.1597-1651)**, 1st Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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* **Maj. Gen. Gov. Sir John Leverett (1616-1679)**, 10th Governor of Acadia, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Captain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony Militia, Massachusetts Agent for England, Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, on a Committee to draft a petition to the king demanding the commission's recall
* **Elder Thomas Leverett (1591-1650)**, ruling elder of England, selectmen, on the Committee to review causes. On 30 Nov 1635 he was on the Committee to oversee allotments
* **Hon. Roger Ludlow (1590-1664)**, 2nd Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony; 1st, 4th & 10th Lieutenant Governor of the Connecticut

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* **Hon. Lt. Ephraim Morton (1623-1693)**, Representative, Justice of the Peace and Selectmen of Plymouth, Massachusetts
* **Hon. Thomas Mayhew (1593-1682)**, Self Proclaimed Governor of Martha's Vineyard, Patriarch to the Indians, Selectmen of Watertown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts

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* **Hon. John Newgate (1588-1665)**,  Deputy to the General Court of Massachusetts, Constable, on a committee to receive funds for Harvard

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* **Hon. Peter Palfrey (1611-1663)**, Representative for Salem tot he first General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony , a founder of Salem.
* **Hon. William Patten (1605-1668)**, Deputy from Cambridge, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts Bay General Court, Fence Viewer, Highway Surveyor, proprietor of a 500 acre farm
* **Hon. Capt. John Peabody (1590-1667)**, Deputy from Boxford, Massachusetts
* **Hon. John Perkins (1583-1654)**, Deputy to the Massachusetts Bay General Court
* **Hon. John Phillips (1605-1682)**, Deputy to the Massachusetts General Court from Hingham
* **Hon. Sgt. John Porter (1596-1676)**, Deputy from Salem on 20 May 1644
* **Archelaus Putnam (1721-bef.1786)**, Selectman of Danvers at the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War, often chosen moderator of town meetings
* **Dr. Amos Putnam (1722-1807)**, member of the Committee of Safety and Moderator of Town Meetings during the American Revolutionary War
* **Dea. Capt. Benjamin Putnam (1664-1715)**, Constable and Collector Danvers, Tithingman, Selectman of Danvers, Massachusetts, he was the first Deacon of the First Church of Danvers
* **Sgt. Benjamin Putnam (1718-1796)**, on the Committee to Regulate Schools for the winter of 1787 with his cousin Nathan Putnam
* **Cornelius Putnam (1702-1761)**, Selectman of Sutton, 1733-1734
* **Hon. Dea. Daniel Putnam (1721-1773)**, Selectman of Reading, 1763, 1768, 1771; Representative of Reading to the Massachusetts General Court, 1773
* **Dea. Lt. Daniel Putnam (-1801)**, on the Committee of Correspondence in 1777
* **Hon. Col. David Putnam (1707-1768)**, Selectman of Salem Village, 1751; Selectman of Danvers, 1757
* **Ebenezer Putnam (1719-1782)**, Selectman, 1755, 1756, 1761, 1765 and Town Moderator, 1765, 1766, 1769
* **Dea. Edmund Putnam (1724-1810)**, Selectman of Danvers, 11 Mar 1776, chosen by a unanimous vote; appointed to be on the committee that voted to form the government of the State of Massachusetts, 13 Apr 1778
* **Constable Eleazer Putnam (1759-1836)**, held many offices in Danvers
* **Hon. Dea. Elisha Putnam (1685-1745)**, Representative to the General Court of Massachusetts, Town Clerk and Treasurer of Salem Village
* **Dea. Gideon Putnam (1726-1811)**, Moderator of the Committee of three to see abut taking some action concerning the civil rights of Salem Village
* **James Putnam (1689-1763)**, Selectman of Salem Farms, 1747
* **Lt. James Putnam (1661-1727)**, served the proprietors on the Grand Committee for 20 years
* James Putnam (1689-c.1763), Selectman of the "Farm"
* **Hon. Maj. James Putnam (1725-1789)**, judge, he succeeded Trowbridge as Attorney General for Massachusetts
* **Hon. Maj. James Putnam (1726-1750)**, Attorney General of Massachusetts, Moderator of Town Meetings and held other offices prior to the American Revolutionary War
* **Hon. Capt. John Putnam, Jr. (1627-1710)**, Deputy from Salem Village to the Massachusetts General Court, 1679, 1680-1686-191-1692; Chairman of the Committee to Represent the Inhabitants of Salem Village
* **Constable Jonathan Putnam (1715-1762)**, held various offices in Salem Village
* **Joseph Putnam (1687-c.1772)**, Selectmen of Danvers, Massachusetts, 4 Mar 1752
* **Hon. Capt. Jonathan Putnam (1657-1739)**, Representative from Salem Village in 1710, surveyors of highways or on committees to establish town boundaries, tithingman and selectman in the years of 1689-1703-1705-1707-1709-1710-1718-1720-1721-1722
* **Hon. Nathaniel Putnam (1619-1700)**, Representative from Salem Village in 1656 and then Deputy to the Massachusetts General Court, 1690-1691
* **Samuel Putnam (1723/4-1775)**, Selectman of Lunenburg, 1767-1770
* **Pvt. Tarrant Putnam (1743-)**, on the Committee appointed by Salem Village "to take consideration of the condition of our civil liberties."
* **Lt. Thomas Putnam (1615-1686)**, 1st Parish Clerk of Salem Village, Essex County, Massachusetts, North America, Selectman of Salem Village in 1650, On 11 Sep 1648 he was a Grand Juryman of Salem Village
* **Hon. Thomas Putnam (1728-1814)**, 1st Justice of the Peace of Acworth, Massachusetts; Moderator of Town Meetings
* **William Putnam (1729/30-bef.1807)**, member of the Massachusetts Convention that formed the Massachusetts State Constitution

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* **Hon. Dea. Edmund Rice (c.1594-1663)**, Deputy of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Selectman of Sudbury, Massachusetts, Judge of Small Causes of Sudbury, Massachusetts, Selectman of Marlborough, Massachusetts
* **Hon. Richard Russell (1611-1676)** Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Deputies, Treasurer of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Assistant to the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Representative of Charlestown to the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, proprietor and purchaser of what is now known as Medford, Massachusetts, Town Selectmen, had a coat of arms

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* **Sir Richard Saltonstall (bapt.1586-1661)**, a signer of Massachusetts, first assistant to Gov. John Winthrop of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
* **Hon. Col. Eppes Sargent (1690-1762)**, Representatives of the General Court of Massachusetts from 1744 to 1744 from Gloucestershire, Massachusetts, Colonel of a militia in Massachusetts, Magistrate of Gloucester, Essex County, Massachusetts, Selectmen of Gloucestershire, Massachusetts
* **Hon. Thomas Scruggs (1588-1654)**, Deputy to the Great and General Court of Massachusetts
* **Hon. Samuel Symonds (1588-1654)**, 8th Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

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* **Sir Henry Vane the Younger (bapt.1613-1662)**, 5th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, he governed from England.

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* **Hon. Francis Willioughby (1613-1671)**, 7th Deputy Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
* **Gov. Edward Winslow (1595-1655)**, 3rd, 6th & 10th Governor of Plymouth Colony
* **Gov. Josiah Winslow (c1623-1680)**, 13th Governor of Plymouth Colony
* **Gov. John Winthrop (1587/88-1649)**, 2nd, 6th, 9th & 12 Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
* **Hon. Lt. Archelaus Woodman (1613-1702)**, Deputy and Representative to the Massachusetts Bay Colony Court

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