Joshua Cushman
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Maine
In office
March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825
Preceded by6th District created in 1820
William D. Williamson (4th)
Succeeded byJeremiah O'Brien (6th)
Peleg Sprague (4th)
Constituency6th district (1821–23)
4th district (1823–25)
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 19th district
In office
March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821
Preceded byJoshua Gage
Succeeded byDistrict eliminated[1]
Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
In office
1832–1834
Member of the
Maine House of Representatives[2]
In office
January 1, 1834 – January 27, 1834
Personal details
Born(1761-04-11)April 11, 1761
Halifax, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
DiedJanuary 27, 1834(1834-01-27) (aged 72)
Augusta, Maine, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic-Republican, Adams-Clay Republican
SpouseLucy Jones[3]
ChildrenCharles Cushmam[4]
Alma materHarvard College
ProfessionMinister
Military service
Allegiance United States
Branch/serviceContinental Army
Years of serviceApril 1, 1777 - March 1780
Battles/warsAmerican Revolutionary War

Joshua Cushman (April 11, 1761 – January 27, 1834) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts and from Maine. Born in Halifax in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Cushman served in the Continental Army from April 1, 1777, until March 1780. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1787, studied theology, was ordained to the ministry and licensed to preach. He was pastor of the Congregational Church in Winslow, Maine for nearly twenty years. He served in the Massachusetts State Senate, and served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

Cushman was elected as Democratic-Republican from Massachusetts to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). When the State of Maine was admitted into the Union, he was also elected as a Democratic-Republican member to the Seventeenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). He died in Augusta, Maine on January 27, 1834. He was interred in a tomb on the State grounds in Augusta.

Notes

  1. ^ This district was moved to Maine as a result of the Missouri Compromise in 1820.
  2. ^ Cushman, Henry Wyles (1855), A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman The Puritan From the Year 1617 to 1855, Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Company, p. 186
  3. ^ Cushman, Henry Wyles (1855), A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman The Puritan From the Year 1617 to 1855, Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Company, p. 185
  4. ^ Cushman, Henry Wyles (1855), A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of The Cushmans: the Descendants of Robert Cushman The Puritan From the Year 1617 to 1855, Boston, MA: Little Brown, and Company, p. 185

References

U.S. House of Representatives Preceded byWilliam D. Williamson Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 4th congressional district March 4, 1823–March 3, 1825 Succeeded byJeremiah O'Brien Preceded byFormer Massachusetts's 19th districtwent with Maine when Maine separated from Massachusetts Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 6th congressional district March 4, 1821–March 3, 1823 Succeeded byPeleg Sprague Preceded byJoshua Gage Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 19th congressional district March 4, 1819–March 3, 1821 Succeeded byWent with Maine when Maine separated from Massachusetts

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