Peleg Wadsworth
U.S. Congressperson
1748 – 1829
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Who was Peleg Wadsworth?
Peleg Wadsworth was an American officer during the American Revolutionary War and a Congressman from Massachusetts representing the District of Maine. He was also grandfather of noted American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
Wadsworth was born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, to Peleg and Susanna Wadsworth. He graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. and an A.M., and taught school for several years in Plymouth, Massachusetts, with his former classmate Alexander Scammel. There he met Elizabeth Bartlett, whom he married in 1772.
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- Born
- May 6, 1748
Duxbury - Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Harvard University
- Harvard College
- Died
- Jul 18, 1829
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on July 23, 2013
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