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American politician
Zeno Scudder
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
In office
March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1854
Preceded byJoseph Grinnell
Succeeded byThomas D. Eliot
Constituency10th district (1851–53)
1st district (1853–54)
President of the
Massachusetts State Senate
In office
1848–1848
Preceded byWilliam B. Calhoun
Succeeded byJoseph Bell
Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
In office
1846–1848
Personal details
Born(1807-08-18)August 18, 1807
Barnstable, Massachusetts
DiedJune 26, 1857(1857-06-26) (aged 49)
Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts
Political partyWhig

Zeno Scudder (August 18, 1807 – June 26, 1857) was an American politician and attorney who was the president of the Massachusetts Senate in 1848 and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1851 until 1854.

Biography

Scudder was born in Osterville, Massachusetts, on August 18, 1807, as the son of Deacon Josiah and Hannah Scudder. He had a paralysis in his right leg that made a naval career impossible. He studied medicine at Bowdoin College and then law at the Cambridge Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and conducted practice in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Scudder was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1846 until 1848 and served as Senate President. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1851 until 1854.

Scudder was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses. His special interest while in Congress was American Fisheries. He served from March 4, 1851, until his resignation on March 4, 1854.

Scudder died in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1857, and was interred in Hillside Cemetery, Osterville.

See also

References

  1. ^ Freeman, Frederick (1862), History of Cape Cod: The Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Vol, II., Boston, MA: Frederick Freeman, p. 337
  2. ^ Swift, Charles Francis (1897), Cape Cod, the right arm of Massachusetts: An Historical Narrative, Yarmouth, MA: Register Publishing Company, p. 269

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Preceded byWilliam B. Calhoun President of the Massachusetts Senate
1848 — 1848
Succeeded byJoseph Bell
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded byJoseph Grinnell Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 10th congressional district

March 4, 1851 – March 3, 1853
Succeeded byEdward Dickinson
Preceded byWilliam Appleton Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district

March 4, 1853 – March 4, 1854
Succeeded byThomas D. Eliot
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