1. Theodore Sedgwick was an American attorney, politician, and jurist who served in elected state government and as a delegate to the Continental Congress, a US representative, and a senator from Massachusetts.
23 Facts About Theodore Sedgwick
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Theodore Sedgwick served as the fourth speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
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Theodore Sedgwick was appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1802 and served there for the rest of his life.
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Theodore Sedgwick attended Yale College, where he studied theology and law.
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Theodore Sedgwick did not graduate, but continued in his study of law under the attorney Mark Hopkins of Great Barrington.
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Theodore Sedgwick was admitted to the bar in 1766 and commenced practice in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
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Theodore Sedgwick worked there for much of the rest of her life, buying a separate house for her and her daughter after the Sedgwick children were grown.
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Theodore Sedgwick was elected as representative to the state house, and then as state senator.
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Theodore Sedgwick was a charter member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1780.
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In 1789 Theodore Sedgwick was elected as Representative to Congress from Massachusetts' first congressional district, and unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate that year.
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In 1802, Theodore Sedgwick was appointed a justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
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Theodore Sedgwick was nine years younger than John Adams, a 1780 delegate to the Second Continental Congress, attorney and state and federal politician.
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Theodore Sedgwick greatly admired Adams and worked for his election to the presidency in 1796.
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Around 1767, Theodore Sedgwick married Elizabeth "Eliza" Mason, the daughter of a deacon from Franklin, Connecticut.
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In 1771, Theodore Sedgwick contracted smallpox which he passed on to his wife who was then pregnant with the couple's first child.
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Theodore Sedgwick was the daughter of Brigadier General Joseph Dwight of Great Barrington and his second wife, the widow Abigail Williams Sargent.
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Theodore Sedgwick committed suicide by consuming poison on September 20,1807.
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Approximately eight months after Pamela's death, Theodore Sedgwick announced his intention to marry Penelope Russell.
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Theodore Sedgwick's children were horrified and hurt that their father planned to marry so quickly after the death of their mother, Pamela.
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Against his children's wishes, Theodore Sedgwick married Russell on November 7,1808 at King's Chapel in Boston.
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None of Theodore Sedgwick's children were informed of the wedding and did not attend.
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On January 24,1813, Theodore Sedgwick died in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 66.
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Theodore Sedgwick's grave is at the center of the "Sedgwick Pie".