DATE OF BIRTH: September 10, 1805 |
PLACE OF BIRTH: Belfast |
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DATE OF DEATH: March 21, 1881 |
PLACE OF DEATH: Belfast |
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PROFESSION: Lawyer |
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POLITICAL AFFILIATION: Whig |
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TERM IN OFFICE: January 8, 1853 – January 6, 1855 |
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FIRST LADY: Ann M. Patterson |
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QUOTE: The age in which we live may be termed emphatically the Age of Enterprise. Man’s moral and intellectual nature, quickened by new impulses, or aroused to a more energetic exercise of its innate powers, is seeking new and wider fields of action. The great heart of humanity is beating quicker and stronger.
Inaugural Address, January 18, 1853 |
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OTHER ELECTED OR APPOINTED OFFICES: Secretary of the State Board of Eduaction |
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FURTHER READING:
Chase, Henry. Representative Men of Maine. Portland: The Lakeside Press, 1893, p. XXXI.
Williamson, Joseph. “Gov. William G. Crosby,” Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder. Bangor, 1887, pp. 153-160.
Williamson, Joseph. History of the City of Belfast. Portland: Loring, Short and Harmon, 1877, p. 400. |
