Aaron Matson

Aaron Matson (1770 – July 18, 1855) was a United States representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Plymouth, Massachusetts. He moved to Cheshire County, New Hampshire, where he was the county judge of probate.

Matson was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1806–1808, 1810–1814, 1817, and 1818, and a member of the Executive Council 1819–1821. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825).[1] After leaving Congress, he was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1827 and 1828. He died in Newport, Vermont in 1855.

His granddaughter Ann Matson was the first wife of the New Hampshire lawyer and congressman Edmund Burke.[2]

References

  1. ^ "H. Rept. 17-22 - Report of the Committee of Elections. January 21, 1822. Ordered to lie on the table". GovInfo.gov. U.S. Government Printing Office. p. 1. Retrieved 24 June 2023.
  2. ^ Metcalf, Henry Harrison and McClintock, John Norris (1880). The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 3. H.H. Metcalf. p. 204.((cite book)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

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U.S. House of Representatives Preceded byJoseph Buffum, Jr. Member of the U.S. House of Representativesfrom New Hampshire's At-large congressional district 1821–1825 Succeeded byJonathan Harvey


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