district succeeded predecessor successor death_date birth_place death_place imagesize party term_end preceded birth_date term_start order image article_title state name
5th 6th stephen coburn thomas j. d. fuller lot m. morrill abner coburn may 12 , 1883 -lrb- aged 69 -rrb- livermore , maine philadelphia , pennsylvania 300px whig january 7 , 1863 1 , 1861 march 3 , 1853 january ephraim k. smart charles stetson june 6 , 1813 march 2 , 1861 4 , 1853 march 4 , 1851 january 29th governor of maine israel washburn , jr. - brady-handy . jpg israel washburn , jr. .
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israel washburn , jr. .

israel washburn , jr. -lrb- june 6 , 1813 -- may 12 , 1883 -rrb- was a united states political figure .
originally a member of the whig party , he later became a founding member of the republican party .
in 1854 , angry over the passage of the kansas-nebraska act , washburn called a meeting of 30 members of the us house of representatives to discuss forming what became the republican party .
republican gatherings had taken place in wisconsin and michigan earlier in the year , but washburn 's meeting was the first in the u.s. capital , and among u.s. congressmen .
he was probably also the first politician of his rank to use the term `` republican '' , in a speech at bangor , maine on june 2 , 1854 .
washburn represented the district which included bangor and the neighboring town of orono , maine , where he had his home and law office .
born in 1813 in livermore , maine to a prominent political family , washburn organized the maine republican party from 1854 onward .
he was the 29th governor of maine from 1861 to 1863 .
during the american civil war , he helped recruit federal troops from maine .
in 1862 , he attended the loyal war governors ' conference in altoona , pennsylvania , which ultimately gave abraham lincoln support for his emancipation proclamation .
washburn had been an unsuccessful candidate for the thirty-first congress in 1848 ; elected as a whig to the thirty-second and thirty-third congresses , as a republican to the thirty-fourth , thirty-fifth , and thirty-sixth congresses and served from march 4 , 1851 , to january 1 , 1861 , when he resigned , having been elected governor .
he was chairman of the committee on elections -lrb- thirty-fourth congress -rrb- .
washburn was the brother of elihu b. washburne , cadwallader c. washburn , william d. washburn , samuel benjamin washburn , and charles ames washburn .
he died in 1883 in philadelphia , pennsylvania .
he is buried at the mount hope cemetery in bangor , maine .
the town of washburn , maine is named in his honor .
