Gen. James Deering Fessenden, Sr.

Other Events and Attributes:

• Cause of Death: Disease of Heart

James married Frances Cushing "Fannie" Greeley in Nov 1856 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine. Frances was born on 3 Mar 1837 in Maine; died on 26 Jan 1917; was buried on 28 Jan 1917 in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Judge and Politician
• Cause of Death: Inflammation of Bowels

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William Pitt Fessenden (October 16, 1806 - September 8, 1869) was an American politician from the U.S. state of Maine. Fessenden was a Whig (later a Republican) and member of the Fessenden political family. He served in the United States House of Representatives and Senate before becoming Secretary of the Treasury under President Abraham Lincoln during the American Civil War.
Fessenden was born in Boscawen, New Hampshire, on October 16, 1806. His father was attorney and legislator Samuel Fessenden. His mother was Ruth Greene. The parents were unmarried. William was separated from his mother at his birth, and he was raised by his paternal grandmother for seven years.
He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1823 and then studied law. He was a founding member of the Maine Temperance Society in 1827. That year he was also admitted to the bar. He practiced with his father, who was also a prominent anti-slavery activist. He practiced law first in Bridgton, Maine, a year in Bangor, and afterward in Portland. He was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1832 and was its leading debater. He refused nominations to Congress in 1831 and in 1838, and served in the Maine legislature again in 1840, becoming chairman of the house committee to revise the statutes of the state.
He was elected for one term in the United States House of Representatives as a Whig in 1840. During this term, he moved to repeal the rule that excluded anti-slavery petitions, and spoke upon the loan and bankrupt bills, and the army. At the end of his term in Congress, he turned his attention wholly to his law business until he was again in the Maine legislature in 1845-46. He acquired a national reputation as a lawyer and an anti-slavery Whig, and in 1849 prosecuted before the United States Supreme Court an appeal from an adverse decision of Judge Joseph Story, and gained a reversal by an argument which Daniel Webster pronounced the best he had heard in twenty years. He was again in the Maine legislature in 1853 and 1854.

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William married Ellen Maria Deering in Apr 1832 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine. Ellen was born on 23 Apr 1809 in Westbrook, Cumberland, Maine; died on 23 Jul 1857 in Portland, Cumberland, Maine; was buried on 25 Jul 1857 in Evergreen Cemetery, Portland, Cumberland, Maine. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Samuel + Ruth Greene. Ruth was born on 27 Nov 1787 in Boscawen, Merrimack, New Hampshire; died on 17 Jan 1869 in Concord, Merrimack, New Hampshire. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Occupation: Housewife
• Cause of Death: Old Age