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3rd mary , d. june 27 , 1887 ; elizabeth mighill nelson balch , b. february 8 , 1834 , d. june 14 nelson , 1851 ; jeremiah nelson , b. january 12 , , 1836 ; john b.nelson , b. january 3 , 1839 b. . may 29 , 1832 march 4 , 1807 1812 march 18 , 1812 march 4 , 1805 1811 march 15 , 1809 member of the member of the jeremiah nelson.png jeremiah nelson
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jeremiah nelson

jeremiah nelson , was a representative from massachusetts .
nelson was born in rowley , essex county , massachusetts , september 14 , 1769 to solomon and elizabeth -lrb- mighill -rrb- nelson .
he graduated from dartmouth college , hanover , new hampshire , in 1790 .
he engaged in the mercantile business in newburyport , massachusetts .
he was a member of the general court of massachusetts in 1803 and 1804 , was elected as a federalist to the ninth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1805 -- march 3 , 1807 -rrb- ; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1806 to the tenth congress .
in 1811 , he served as chairman of the board of selectmen of newburyport .
he was again elected to the congress and to the four succeeding congresses , serving from -lrb- march 4 , 1815 to march 3 , 1825 -rrb- .
during the -lrb- seventeenth and eighteenth congresses -rrb- he was chairman of the committee on expenditures on public buildings .
he was not a candidate for renomination in 1824 to the nineteenth congress .
he served as president of the newburyport mutual fire co. in 1829 .
he returned to congress as an anti-jacksonian for the twenty-second congress -lrb- march 4 , 1831 -- march 3 , 1833 -rrb- .
he declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1832 .
after leaving politics , he engaged in the shipping business .
nelson died in newburyport , massachusetts , october 2 , 1838 , and was interred in oak hill cemetery .
