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  Dwight, Henry W.
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NameHenry W. Dwight
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Stockbridge, Massachusetts , United States
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Born February 26, 1788
Died February 21, 1845 (56 years)
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InfoDWIGHT, Henry Williams, a Representative from Massachusetts; born in Stockbridge, Mass., February 26, 1788; attended Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; studied law; was admitted to the Massachusetts bar in 1809 and commenced practice in Stockbridge; during the War of 1812 served as aide-de-camp with the rank of colonel on the staff of General Whiton; member of the State house of representatives in 1818; elected as a Federalist to the Seventeenth Congress; reelected as a Adams-Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress; elected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses; and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1821-March 3, 1831); was not a candidate for renomination in 1830 to the Twenty-second Congress; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1834; interested in the breeding of purebred sheep and cattle; died in New York City February 21, 1845; interment in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Mass.


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  11/01/1830 MA District 7 (Berkshire) Lost 8.06% (-53.92%)
  11/07/1828 MA District 7 (Berkshire) Won 53.36% (+28.72%)
  03/05/1827 MA District 7 (Berkshire) - 2nd Trial Won 61.25% (+35.73%)
  11/06/1826 MA District 7 (Berkshire) - 1st Trial Lost 6.60% (-27.94%)
  11/01/1824 MA District 7 (Berkshire) Won 55.89% (+11.77%)
  11/04/1822 MA District 7 (Berkshire) Won 62.35% (+24.71%)
  11/06/1820 MA District 13 (Berkshire) Won 51.40% (+7.52%)
  04/05/1819 MA District 13 (Berkshire) - 2nd Trial Lost 45.80% (-4.95%)
  11/02/1818 MA District 13 (Berkshire) - 1st Trial Lost 47.03% (-1.75%)
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