district succeeded death_date death_place birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start spouse image article_title state name restingplace alma_mater
2nd william shepard september 22 , 1811 -lrb- aged 55 -rrb- london , england northampton , massachusetts anti-administration march 3 , 1797 artemas ward december 7 , 1755 march 4 , 1793 jerusha welles , d. june 11 , 1803 memorial to william lyman in gloucester cathedral.jpg william lyman -lrb- congressman -rrb-
 massachusetts william lyman gloucester cathedral , gloucester , england . yale college
william lyman -lrb- congressman -rrb-

william lyman -lrb- december 7 , 1755 -- september 22 , 1811 -rrb- was an american politician from northampton , massachusetts .
lyman was born in northampton , massachusetts to captain william and jemima -lrb- sheldon -rrb- lyman .
lyman attended yale college , graduating in 1776 .
in about 1781 , lyman married jerusha welles , of east hartford , connecticut ; they had eight children .
jerusha died at age 43 , on june 11 , 1803 .
lyman served in the massachusetts house of representatives in 1787 and in the massachusetts state senate in 1789 .
lyman was a candidate for the first congress and ran in the hampshire berkshire district as an anti-federalist against the federalist candidate theodore sedgwick .
sedgwick was elected .
however , seventeen towns that were favorable to lyman were late in sending in their returns and had these towns sent in their returns in a timely manner lyman would have been elected .
lyman represented massachusetts in the united states house of representatives from march 4 , 1793 to march 3 , 1797 .
in 1804 lyman was appointed u.s. consul in london .
he died while on duty 22 september 1811 and is interred in the cathedral at gloucester , england .
