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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 123

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121 of American shipping during the Napoleonic wars, sand in case of failure to pay, letters of marque and reprisals were to be issued. The legislature of Massachusetts had considered Adams for the United States senatorship the senate had given him its vote but the house delayed its vote until after his action in regard to the French affair became known. then it failed to support him. He was reelected to the house serving continuously from 1830 to 1848 when he died in office. He had served eighteen years in the house and it was in that body that his influence was most felt. Many men have served linger - 20 men in the sixty second congress have served as long or longer - but few have wielded a wider influence. At his death in 1848 he was the senior in point of time and of political experience
 
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