Ebenezer Herrick was a U.S. Representative

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 from Maine

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, father of Anson Herrick

Anson Herrick

Anson Herrick was a U.S. Representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War.-Biography:...

. Born in Lewiston, Maine

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 (then a district of Massachusetts), Herrick attended the common schools. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Bowdoinham, Maine

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. He then engaged in mercantile pursuits 1814–1818. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 in 1819, served as member of the convention which formed the first constitution of the State of Maine in 1820,and was Secretary of the Maine Senate

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 in 1821.

Herrick was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress, elected as an Adams-Clay Republican

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 to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1827). He declined to be a candidate for reelection in 1826, and served as a member of the Maine Senate. He died in Lewiston on May 7, 1839, and was interred in the Old Herrick Burying Ground.