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Samuel Dexter
Samuel Dexter was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 14, 1761, the son of a merchant and politician. Dexter was graduated from Harvard University in 1781 and then studied law at Worcester, Massachusetts with Levi Lincoln. He was admitted to the bar in 1784 and practiced in Worcester and Middlesex counties before moving to Boston, where he resided until his death. In addition to his law practice, Dexter was public servant, serving in the State house of representatives (1788-1790), the Third Congress (1793-795), and then the United States Senate (1799-1800), when he was appointed by President John Adams to be Secretary of War. He was appointed Secretary of the Treasury in 1801 until President Jefferson came into office. He then returned to the practice of law in Washington, D.C., but moved to Boston in 1805. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor in 1816. He died of scarlet fever in Athens, New York; interment in Mount Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Samuel
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Dexter Bibliography Lucius Sargent, Reminiscences of Samuel Dexter (Boston: H.W. Dutton and Son, 1857) [online text] |
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