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Joseph B. Varnum

Joseph Bradley Varnum
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President pro tempore of the United States Senate
In office
December 6, 1813 – February 3, 1814
Preceded by William H. Crawford
Succeeded by John Gaillard
6th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office
October 26, 1807 – March 3, 1811
President Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Preceded by Nathaniel Macon
Succeeded by Henry Clay
United States Senator
from Massachusetts
In office
June 29, 1811 – March 3, 1817
Preceded by Timothy Pickering
Succeeded by Harrison Gray Otis
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1803 – June 29, 1811
Preceded by Seth Hastings
Succeeded by William M. Richardson
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 9th district
In office
March 4, 1795 – March 3, 1803
Preceded by inaugural holder
Succeeded by Phanuel Bishop
Member of the Massachusetts Senate
In office
1789-1795
Personal details
Born (1751-01-29)January 29, 1751
Dracut, Massachusetts
Died September 21, 1821(1821-09-21) (aged 70)
Dracut, Massachusetts
Resting place Vernum Cemetery, Dracut
Political party Democratic-Republican
Children 12
Military service
Service/branch Massachusetts Militia
Battles/wars American Revolutionary War

Joseph Bradley Varnum (January 29, 1751 – September 21, 1821) was a U.S. politician of the Democratic-Republican Party from Massachusetts.

Joseph Bradley Varnum was born in Dracut, Massachusetts, Middlesex County, January 29, 1750 or 1751, a farmer with little formal education.

At the age of eighteen, he was commissioned captain by the committee of Massachusetts Bay Colony, and in 1787 colonel by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He was made brigadier general in 1802, and in 1805 major general of the state militia, holding the latter office at his death in 1821. After serving in the Massachusetts militia during the American Revolutionary War, Varnum helped to destroy the Shays insurrection before he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1780–1785) and then the Massachusetts State Senate (1786–1795). He also served as a Justice of the Massachusetts Court of Common Pleas and as Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Court of General Sessions.

In 1794, Varnum was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he served from March 4, 1795 until his resignation on June 29, 1811. During his last four years in the House, he served as its Speaker.

Varnum was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1811 to fill the vacancy in the term. June 29, 1811 to March 3, 1817; served as President pro tempore of the Senate during the Thirteenth Congress; chairman, Committee on Militia (Fourteenth Congress); after returning to Massachusetts in 1817, he again served in the Massachusetts State Senate, until his death September 21, 1821.


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