Joshua Cushman was a U.S. Representative

United States House of Representatives

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 from Massachusetts

Massachusetts

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 and from Maine

Maine

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. Born in Halifax, Massachusetts

Halifax, Massachusetts

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, Cushman served in the Continental Army

Continental Army

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 from April 1, 1777, until March 1780. He was graduated from Harvard University

Harvard University

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 in 1787, studied theology

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, was ordained to the ministry and licensed to preach. He was pastor of the Congregational Church

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 in Winslow, Maine

Winslow, Maine

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 for nearly twenty years. He served in the Massachusetts State Senate, and served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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Cushman was elected as Democratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth

16th United States Congress

-House of Representatives:During this congress, one House seat was added for the new state of Alabama and one seat was reapportioned from Massachusetts to the new state of Maine. For the beginning of the next congress, six more seats from Massachusetts would be reapportioned to...

 Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). When the State of Maine was admitted into the Union, he was also elected as a Democratic-Republican member to the Seventeenth

17th United States Congress

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 Congress, and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican

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 to the Eighteenth

18th United States Congress

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 Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). He died in Augusta, Maine

Augusta, Maine

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on January 27, 1834. He was interred in a tomb on the State grounds in Augusta.