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American politician
Benjamin Orr
(December 1, 1772 ? September 3, 1828) was a member of the
United States House of Representatives
from Massachusetts.
Orr was born in
Bedford
in the
Province of New Hampshire
on December 1, 1772. He was self-educated and apprenticed as a carpenter. He attended
Fryeburg Academy
, taught school at
Concord
and
New Milford, New Hampshire
; and graduated from
Dartmouth College
in 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced the practice of law in
Brunswick
in Massachusetts'
District of Maine
.
Orr moved to
Topsham
, in 1801 and continued the practice of law; was overseer of
Bowdoin College
in
Brunswick
, and served as trustee from 1814 to 1828 and as treasurer in 1815 and 1816.
Orr was elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 ? March 3, 1819) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1818.
He resumed the practice of law in Topsham and, in 1822, returned to Brunswick to continue the practice of law.
He died in
Brunswick, Maine
on September 3, 1828, and he was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery.
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