district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party profession preceded width term birth_date article_title state name
1st rufus mcintire july 2 , 1827 -lrb- aged 42 -rrb- south berwick , maine , usa south berwick , maine , usa adams-clay republican ; adams republican politician , lawyer , joseph dane 200px march , 1827 4 , 1823 & ndash ; july 2 october 24 , 1785 william burleigh
 maine william burleigh
william burleigh

william burleigh -lrb- october 24 , 1785 - july 2 , 1827 -rrb- was a united states representative from maine .
he was born in northwood , new hampshire , on october 24 , 1785 .
he moved with his parents to gilmanton , new hampshire , in 1788 where he attended the common schools and taught for several years .
he then studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1815 and commenced practice in south berwick , maine .
he was elected as an adams-clay democratic-republican to the eighteenth united states congress and as an adams candidate to the nineteenth , and twentieth congresses , and served in the u.s. congress from march 4 , 1823 , until his death in south berwick on july 2 , 1827 .
he served as chairman of committee on expenditures in the department of the treasury for the nineteenth congress .
his interment was in portland street cemetery .
his son was the later maine state legislator and u.s. congressional representative , john holmes burleigh .
