biography
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| lived:
| (1768–1852)
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| biography:
| Ship owner and governor, born in Scarboro, Maine (then part of Massachusetts), USA. He moved to Bath, Maine (1800), and became an important shipowner and a leading citizen. He was a major-general of militia in the War of 1812, and following Maine's admission to the Union he became the first governor of Maine (1820–1). He was a commissioner for the Adams–Onis Treaty with Spain (1821–4). In 1835 he lost the race for the governor's seat. Maine later placed his statue in the US Capitol. |
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