Jeremiah Nelson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807
Preceded byManasseh Cutler
Succeeded byEdward St. Loe Livermore
In office
March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1825
Preceded byTimothy Pickering
Succeeded byJohn Varnum
In office
March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833
Preceded byJohn Varnum
Succeeded byGayton P. Osgood
Chairman of the
Board of Selectmen
of the Town of
Newburyport, Massachusetts[1]
In office
1811–1812
Member of the
Board of Selectmen
of the Town of
Newburyport, Massachusetts[2]
In office
March 15, 1809 – March 18, 1812
Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives[1]
In office
1804–1805
Personal details
Born(1769-09-14)September 14, 1769
Rowley, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
DiedOctober 2, 1838(1838-10-02) (aged 69)
Newburyport, Massachusetts, U.S.
Resting placeOak Hill Cemetery
Political partyFederalist
Republican
SpouseMary Balch[3]
ChildrenMary Balch Nelson, b. May 29, 1832, d. June 27, 1887;
Elizabeth Mighill Nelson, b. February 8, 1834, d. June 14, 1851;
Jeremiah Nelson, b. January 12, 1836;
John B.Nelson, b. January 3, 1839.[3]
Alma materDartmouth

Jeremiah Nelson (September 14, 1769 – October 2, 1838) was a Representative from Massachusetts.

Nelson was born in Rowley in the Province of Massachusetts Bay on September 14, 1769, to Solomon and Elizabeth (Mighill) Nelson.[1] He graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, in 1790. He engaged in the mercantile business in Newburyport, Massachusetts.[1]

He was a member of the general court of Massachusetts in 1803 and 1804, was elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress (March 4, 1805 – March 3, 1807); he was not a candidate for renomination in 1806 to the Tenth Congress. In 1811, he served as chairman of the board of selectmen of Newburyport. He was again elected to the Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from (March 4, 1815 – March 3, 1825). During the (Seventeenth and Eighteenth Congresses) he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings. He was not a candidate for renomination in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress.

He served as president of the Newburyport Mutual Fire Co. in 1829. He returned to Congress as an Anti-Jacksonian for the Twenty-second Congress (March 4, 1831 – March 3, 1833). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1832. After leaving politics, he engaged in the shipping business. Nelson died in Newburyport, Massachusetts, October 2, 1838, and was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764-1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, p. 473
  2. ↑ Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764-1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, p. 600
  3. 1 2 Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764-1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, p. 474
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