William B. Calhoun

William B. Calhoun
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 8th district
In office
March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1843
Preceded byIsaac C. Bates
Succeeded byJohn Quincy Adams
5th Mayor of Springfield, Massachusetts[1]
In office
1859[1]–1859[1]
Preceded byAnsel Phelps, Jr.
Succeeded byDaniel L Harris
28th President[1] of the
Massachusetts Senate[1]
In office
1846[1]–1847[1]
Preceded byLevi Lincoln Jr.
Succeeded byZeno Scudder
10th Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth
In office
January 1848[2] – 1851[2]
GovernorGeorge N. Briggs
Preceded byJohn G. Palfrey
Succeeded byAmasa Walker
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1828–1834
Preceded byWilliam C. Jarvis
Succeeded byJulius Rockwell
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
In office
1825–1834
In office
1861[1]–1861[1][2]
Personal details
Born
William Barron Calhoun

December 29, 1796[1]
DiedNovember 8, 1865 (aged 68)
Springfield, Massachusetts[2]
Political partyAnti-Jacksonian, Whig
SpouseMargaret Howard[2]

William Barron Calhoun (December 29, 1796 – November 8, 1865) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j Davis, William Thomas (1895), Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume I, Boston, MA: The Boston History Company, p. 448
  2. ^ a b c d e Dexter, Franklin Bowditch (1912), Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College With Annals of the College History, Vol. VI September; 1805 - September; 1815, New Haven, Ct: Yale University Press, p. 629