 | Joseph Palmer - 1864 - 556 pages
...the executive-council ; but declined to accept the office, on account of professional engagements. In 1819, he was a member of the convention which framed...Generals Wingate and Chandler, Judges Bridge, Dana, and Parris. On the admission of Maine into the Union in 1820, he was elected a member of the sixteenth... | |
 | Joseph Palmer - 1864 - 544 pages
...of the executive-council; but declined to accept the office, on account of professional engagements. In 1819, he was a member of the convention which framed...him in this important committee, among others, were Chief-Justice Whitman, Generals Wingate and Chandler, Judges Bridge, Dana, and Parris. On the admission... | |
 | Joseph Palmer - 1864 - 564 pages
...the executive-council ; but declined to accept the office, on account of professional engagements. In 1819, he was a member of the convention which framed...being chairman. Associated with him in this important comrnittee, among others, were Chief-Justice Whitman, Generals Wingate and Chandler, Judges Bridge,... | |
 | Joseph Palmer - 1864 - 556 pages
...the executive-council ; but declined to accept the office, on account of professional engagements. In 1819, he was a member of the convention which framed...proceedings and deliberations ; and was one of the cbmmittee which draughted the constitution, Mr. Holmes being chairman. Associated with him in this... | |
 | David-Parsons Holton, Frances Keturah Forward Holton - 1888 - 894 pages
...times sent to Boston as a member of the General Court, while, Maine was a province of Massachusetts. He was a member of the Convention which framed the Constitution of Maine, in 1819-20, and represented his town in the first Legislature of Maine, in 1821. In the records of... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1892 - 514 pages
...still be attached to her." Several other towns in the western part of the county favored this plan. In 1819 he was a member of the convention which framed the constitution, and of the committee to draft the instrument. John Holmes, after his election in 1820 as United States... | |
 | 1892 - 514 pages
...still be attached to her." Several other towns in the western part of the county favored this plan. In 1819 he was a member of the convention which framed the constitution, and of the committee to draft the instrument. John Holmes, after his election in 1820 as United States... | |
 | Maine Historical Society - 1892 - 536 pages
...still be attached to her." Several other towns in the western part of the county favored this .plan. In 1819 he was a member of the convention which framed the constitution, and of the committee to draft the instrument. John Holmes, after his election in 1820 as United States... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1892 - 768 pages
...throughout that part of the state. Dr Grover served as an assistant-surgeon in the war of 1812. He was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of Maine in 1819, and after the admission of the state to the union he served in both branches of the legislature... | |
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... constitution for Maine, which then failed to accomplish its object ; the popular majority required to authorize it not having been obtained. In 1818, he was elected by the legislature of Massachusetts one of the executive-council ; but declined to... 