serviceyears branch death_date children allegiance birth_date term_end alma_mater death_place profession preceded battles term_start order spouse name succeeded birth_place party state district religion article_title
april 1 , 1777 - march , 1780 continental army january 27 , 1834 -lrb- aged 72 -rrb- charles cushmam united states 1777 april 11 , 1761 march 3 , 1821 january 27 , 1834 4 , 1825 march 3 , 1823 march harvard college augusta , maine minister william separated from massachusetts joshua gage d. williamson district went with maine when maine american revolutionary war march 4 , 1819 january 1 , 1834 4 , 1823 march 4 , 1821 march member of the lucy jones joshua cushman peleg maine separated from massachusetts sprague jeremiah o'brien district went with maine when halifax , massachusetts democratic-republican , adams-clay republican maine maine massachusetts 4th 6th 19th congregationalist joshua cushman

joshua cushman

joshua cushman -lrb- april 11 , 1761 -- january 27 , 1834 -rrb- was a u.s. representative from massachusetts and from maine .
born in halifax , massachusetts , cushman served in the continental army from april 1 , 1777 , until march 1780 .
he was graduated from harvard university in 1787 , studied theology , was ordained to the ministry and licensed to preach .
he was pastor of the congregational church in winslow , maine for nearly twenty years .
he served in the massachusetts state senate , and served as member of the massachusetts house of representatives .
cushman was elected as democratic-republican from massachusetts to the sixteenth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1819 -- march 3 , 1821 -rrb- .
when the state of maine was admitted into the union , he was also elected as a democratic-republican member to the seventeenth congress , and reelected as an adams-clay republican to the eighteenth congress -lrb- march 4 , 1821 -- march 3 , 1825 -rrb- .
he died in augusta , maine on january 27 , 1834 .
he was interred in a tomb on the state grounds in augusta .
