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Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912

Previous Legislative Experience of United States Senators by Agnes Wallace Smith, 1912, Page 113

After having served as secretary of war and secretary of state Timothy Pickering was elected by the Massachusetts legislature to the United States senate to fill the place of [firstname?Durght?] [lastname?fister?], resigned . He had been a candidate in 1802 but was defeated by John [middlename?] Adams. Unlike his associate who voted independent of party lines. Mr. Pickering was a federalist of the extreme type. He was in the helpless minority but [staunchly?] opposed almost every measure of the republican administration . His first opposition occurred in the question of the Louisiana purchase . He doubted the right France to the territory in that the terms of the treaty of San [?] had not been complied with. He did not believe the president knew any thing of that treaty except the first clause and he doubted

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After having served as secretary of war and secretary of state Timothy Pickering was elected by the Massachusetts legislature to the United States senate to fill the place of [firstname?Durght?] [lastname?fister?], resigned . He had been a candidate in 1802 but was defeated by John [middlename?] Adams. Unlike his associate who voted independent of party lines. Mr. Pickering was a federalist of the extreme type. He was in the helpless minority but [staunchly?] opposed almost every measure of the republican administration . His first opposition occurred in the question of the Louisiana purchase . He doubted the right France to the territory in that the terms of the treaty of San [?] had not been complied with. He did not believe the president knew any thing of that treaty except the first clause and he doubted