Nathaniel Silsbee

Nathaniel Silsbee
United States Senator
from Massachusetts
In office
May 31, 1826 – March 3, 1835
Preceded byJames Lloyd
Succeeded byJohn Davis
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 2nd district
In office
March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821
Preceded byTimothy Pickering
Succeeded byGideon Barstow
President of the
Massachusetts State Senate
In office
1823–1825
Preceded byJohn Phillips
Succeeded byJohn Mills
Personal details
Born(1773-01-14)January 14, 1773
Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America
DiedJuly 14, 1850(1850-07-14) (aged 77)
Salem, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political partyFederalist
National Republican
Whig
SpouseMary Crowninshield
RelationsJared Sparks, Son in law.[1]
ChildrenNathaniel Silsbee, Jr., b. December 2, 1804[1]
Mary Crowninshield Silsbee, b. April 10, 1809[1]
Georgina Silsbee,
b. January 27, 1824[1] d. January 25, 1901.[2]
OccupationMerchant

Nathaniel Silsbee (January 14, 1773 – July 14, 1850) was a ship master, merchant and American politician from Salem, Massachusetts.

  1. ^ a b c d Cooke, Harriet Ruth Waters (1889), The Driver family: a genealogical memoir of the descendants of Robert and Phebe Driver, Cambridge, MA: University Press, p. 474
  2. ^ Perkins Institute and the Massachusetts School for the Blind (1902), Seventieth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Perkins Institute and the Massachusetts School for the Blind for the year ending August 31, 1901, Boston, MA: Perkins Institute and the Massachusetts School for the Blind, p. 47