biography
| sex:
| male
|
| lived:
| (1805–52)
|
| biography:
| Lawyer and reformer, born in Beverly, Massachusetts, USA. He practised law in Salem and Boston and helped shape Democratic Party policy. As a member of the state legislature and in speeches and articles, he advocated free trade, religious tolerance, public education, collective bargaining, and temperance; he opposed slavery, corporate wealth, and the death penalty. He served briefly in the US Senate (Democrat, Massachusetts, 1851) and House of Representatives (Democrat, Massachusetts, 1851–2). |
|
|
