district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place profession party preceded term birth_date spouse article_title state name restingplace alma_mater
11th aaron hobart february 17 , 1832 -lrb- aged 60 -rrb- milton , massachusetts providence , rhode island merchant , politician , diplomat democratic-republican party benjamin adams march 4 , 1821-march 3 , 1823 february 27 , 1771 sylvia lydia smith -lrb- 1786-1859 -rrb- -lrb- m. 1817 -rrb- ammidon -lrb- 1773-1811 -rrb- -lrb- m. 1796 -rrb- jonathan russell
 massachusetts jonathan russell russell family cemetery -lrb- milton , massachusetts -rrb- rhode island college
jonathan russell

jonathan russell -lrb- february 27 , 1771 -- february 17 , 1832 -rrb- was a united states representative from massachusetts and diplomat .
born in providence , rhode island on february 27 , 1771 , russell graduated from brown university -lrb- then rhode island college -rrb- in 1791 .
he studied law and was admitted to the bar , but did not practice .
he engaged in mercantile pursuits for a number of years .
in 1808 he was appointed collector of the port of bristol .
he was appointed by president james madison to the diplomatic service in france in 1811 .
he transferred to england , where he was chargé d'affaires when war was declared by the united states in 1812 .
he was minister to sweden and norway from january 18 , 1814 to october 16 , 1818 .
`` jonathan russell and the capture of the guerriere , '' by lawrence s. kaplan in the william and mary quarterly , third series , vol .
24 , no. 2 -lrb- apr. , 1967 -rrb- , published by the omohundro institute of early american history and culture , discusses the circumstances of russell 's authorship of a patriotic poem about the famous sea battle found in russell 's private papers -lrb- now mainly at brown university 's library -rrb- .
the article quotes the entirety of the poem , dates it to approximately 1812 , and speculates that russell was motivated to write this anti-british work by the humiliation he had suffered while at the court of st. james .
russell was one of the five commissioners who negotiated the treaty of ghent with great britain in 1814 , ending the war of 1812 .
he returned to the united states in 1818 and settled in mendon , massachusetts .
he became a member of the massachusetts house of representatives in 1820 and was elected to the seventeenth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1821 -- march 3 , 1823 -rrb- .
he was chairman of the committee on foreign affairs -lrb- seventeenth congress -rrb- .
in 1822 , russell authored a pamphlet accusing john quincy adams , one of russell 's former fellow-negotiators at ghent in 1814 , of having favored british interests in those treaty talks .
russell intended the pamphlet to further henry clay 's presidential candidacy against adams in the 1824 election .
adams ' responsive pamphlets were so devastating in impugning russell 's veracity that they engendered the phrase `` to jonathan russell '' someone , meaning to use facts and truth to refute an attacker 's falsehoods so effectively that it destroys the attacker 's reputation and political career .
russell died in milton , massachusetts on february 17 , 1832 , and was interred in the family plot on his estate in milton .
