1806 - 1869 (62 years)
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| Name |
William Pitt Fessenden |
| Title |
Hon. |
| Birth |
16 Oct 1806 |
Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Occupation |
Judge and Politician |
| Cause of Death |
Inflammation of Bowels |
| Death |
8 Sep 1869 |
Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
| Burial |
10 Sep 1869 |
Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
| Person ID |
I31428 |
Backus Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
23 Nov 2015 |
| Father |
Samuel Fessenden, b. 16 Jul 1784, Fryeburg, Oxford, Maine d. 19 Mar 1869, Portland, Cumberland, Maine (Age 84 years) |
| Mother |
Ruth Greene, b. 27 Nov 1787, Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire d. 17 Jan 1869, Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire (Age 81 years) |
| Family ID |
F13892 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Spouse / Partner |
Ellen Maria Deering, b. 23 Apr 1809, Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine d. 23 Jul 1857, Portland, Cumberland, Maine (Age 48 years) |
| Marriage |
Apr 1832 |
Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
| Age at Marriage |
He : 25 years and 6 months old - She : 23 years old. (Were Married 25 years and 3 months). |
| Children |
| | 1. Gen. James Deering Fessenden, Sr., b. 28 Sep 1833, Portland, Cumberland, Maine d. 18 Nov 1882, Portland, Cumberland, Maine (Age 49 years) |
| | 2. William Howard Fessenden, b. 5 May 1835, Portland, Cumberland, Maine d. 21 Sep 1898, Riverside, Riverside, California (Age 63 years) |
| | 3. Francis Fessenden, b. 18 Mar 1839, Portland, Cumberland, Maine d. 2 Jan 1906, Portland, Cumberland, Maine (Age 66 years) |
| | 4. Mary Deering Fessenden, b. 16 Jun 1842, Portland, Cumberland, Maine d. 11 Dec 1848, Portland, Cumberland, Maine (Age 6 years) |
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| Family ID |
F13893 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Last Modified |
23 Nov 2015 |
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| Event Map |
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 | Birth - 16 Oct 1806 - Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire |
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 | Marriage - Apr 1832 - Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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| Child - Gen. James Deering Fessenden, Sr. - 28 Sep 1833 - Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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| Child - William Howard Fessenden - 5 May 1835 - Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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| Child - Francis Fessenden - 18 Mar 1839 - Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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| Child - Mary Deering Fessenden - 16 Jun 1842 - Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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| Death - 8 Sep 1869 - Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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 | Burial - 10 Sep 1869 - Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland, Maine |
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| Notes |
- William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806 - September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican) and member of the Fessenden political family. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Fessenden was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on October 16, 1806. His father was attorney and legislator Samuel Fessenden. His mother was Ruth Greene. The parents were unmarried. William was separated from his mother at his birth, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother for seven years.
He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1823 and then studied law. He was a founding member of the Maine Temperance Society in 1827. That year he was also admitted to the bar. He practiced with his father, who was also a prominent anti-slavery activist. He practiced law first in Bridgton, Maine, a year in Bangor, and afterward in Portland. He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1832 and was its leading debater. He refused nominations to Congress in 1831 and in 1838, and served in the Maine legislature again in 1840, becoming chairman of the house committee to revise the statutes of the state.
He was elected for one term in the United States House of Representatives as a Whig in 1840. During this term, he moved to repeal the rule that excluded anti-slavery petitions, and spoke upon the loan and bankrupt bills, and the army. At the end of his term in Congress, he turned his attention wholly to his law business until he was again in the Maine legislature in 1845-46. He acquired a national reputation as a lawyer and an anti-slavery Whig, and in 1849 prosecuted before the United States Supreme Court an appeal from an adverse decision of Judge Joseph Story, and gained a reversal by an argument which Daniel Webster pronounced the best he had heard in twenty years. He was again in the Maine legislature in 1853 and 1854.
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