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Samuel Dexter

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Samuel Dexter

Birth
Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
4 May 1816 (aged 54)
Athens, Greene County, New York, USA
Burial
Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
Plot
Indian Ridge Path, Lot 2703
Memorial ID
6304729 View Source
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US Congressman, US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He was elected to represent Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1793 to 1795. He was the elected as a Senator from Massachusetts in the United States Senate, serving from 1799 to 1800, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet appointment in the administration of President John Adams. He served as Secretary of War in 1800 and as Secretary of the Treasury in 1801. He unsuccessfully ran for Massachusetts Governor in 1816, shortly before he died.

US Congressman, US Senator, Presidential Cabinet Secretary. He was elected to represent Massachusetts’ 1st Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1793 to 1795. He was the elected as a Senator from Massachusetts in the United States Senate, serving from 1799 to 1800, when he resigned to accept a Cabinet appointment in the administration of President John Adams. He served as Secretary of War in 1800 and as Secretary of the Treasury in 1801. He unsuccessfully ran for Massachusetts Governor in 1816, shortly before he died.

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  • Maintained by: Find a Grave
  • Originally Created by: RPD2
  • Added: 31 Mar 2002
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6304729
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/6304729/samuel-dexter: accessed ), memorial page for Samuel Dexter (14 May 1761–4 May 1816), Find a Grave Memorial ID 6304729, citing Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA; Maintained by Find a Grave.