Nathaniel Silsbee | |
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| United States Senator from Massachusetts | |
| In office May 31, 1826 – March 3, 1835 | |
| Preceded by | James Lloyd |
| Succeeded by | John Davis |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 2nd district | |
| In office March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1821 | |
| Preceded by | Timothy Pickering |
| Succeeded by | Gideon Barstow |
| President of the Massachusetts State Senate | |
| In office 1823–1825 | |
| Preceded by | John Phillips |
| Succeeded by | John Mills |
| Personal details | |
| Born | January 14, 1773 Salem, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America |
| Died | July 14, 1850 (aged 77) Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Federalist National Republican Whig |
| Spouse | Mary Crowninshield |
| Relations | Jared Sparks, Son in law.[1] |
| Children | Nathaniel 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] |
| Occupation | Merchant |
Nathaniel Silsbee (January 14, 1773 – July 14, 1850) was a ship master, merchant and American politician from Salem, Massachusetts.
- ^ 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
- ^ 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