John Locke (Massachusetts politician)

John Locke (February 14, 1764 – March 29, 1855), was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.[2][3] He was born in Hopkinton in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and attended Andover Academy and Dartmouth College, eventually graduating from Harvard University in 1792. He was admitted to the Massachusetts bar and began practicing law in Ashby in 1796.

John Locke
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 6th district
In office March 4, 1829 – March 3, 1833
Preceded by	Samuel Clesson Allen
Succeeded by	Joseph G. Kendall
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office 1804-1805 1813 1823
Personal details
Born	February 14, 1764 Hopkinton, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
Died	March 29, 1855 (aged 91) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Spouse(s)	Hannah Goodwin[1]
Profession	Attorney[1]

Political career

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1804, 1805, 1813, and 1823, and was a delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1820. He was elected to the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1829); He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1828. Locke was then a member of the Massachusetts State Senate in 1830, and of the State executive council in 1831. At this time he also resumed the practice of law.

Writing

He wrote two "essays" about how the Articles were wrong, and was ridiculed greatly by peers.

Death

Locke died in Boston, Massachusetts on March 29, 1855; he is interred in Lowell Cemetery in Lowell.[3]

Footnotes

1. Green, Samuel Abbott (1892), An Account of the Lawyers of Groton, Massachusetts: Including Natives Who Have Practised Elsewhere and Those Also Who Have Studied Law in the Town, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, p. 127
2. Green, Samuel Abbott (1892), An Account of the Lawyers of Groton, Massachusetts: Including Natives Who Have Practised Elsewhere and Those Also Who Have Studied Law in the Town, Cambridge, Massachusetts: University Press, p. 126
3. Hurd, Duane Hamilton (1890), History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts: With Biographical Sketches of Many of Its Pioneers and Prominent Men Vol. 1, Philadelphia, PA: J. W. Lewis & CO., p. L