Prentiss Mellen | |
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| United States Senator from Massachusetts | |
| In office June 5, 1818 – May 15, 1820 | |
| Preceded by | Eli P. Ashmun |
| Succeeded by | Elijah H. Mills |
| First Chief Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court | |
| In office July 1, 1820–October 11, 1834 | |
| Preceded by | None |
| Succeeded by | Nathan Weston |
| Personal details | |
| Born | October 11, 1764 Sterling, Massachusetts |
| Died | December 31, 1840 (aged 76) Portland, Maine |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Spouse | Sarah Hudson[1] |
| Children | Grenville Mellen;[2] Frederic Mellen[3] |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Profession | Attorney |
Prentiss Mellen (October 11, 1764 – December 31, 1840) was a lawyer, politician, and jurist from Massachusetts and Maine. Born in Massachusetts and educated at Harvard, Mellen served for two years as a United States Senator from Massachusetts, and was appointed Maine's first chief justice after it achieved statehood in 1820.
- ^ Greenleaf, LL.D., S. Herbert (1841), Reports of cases determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the State of Maine, Volume 17; Memoir of the Life and Character of the Late Chief Justice Mellen, Augusta, ME.: The Maine Supreme Judicial Court, p. 471
- ^ Lancey, S. Herbert (1856), The gift book of gems, Bangor, ME.: David Bugbee & Co., p. 103
- ^ Griffith, George Bancroft (1888), The poets of Maine: a collection of specimen poems from over four hundred Verse Makers of the Pine Tree State, Augusta, ME.: Elwell Pickard & Co., p. 107