Tappan Wentworth

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Tappan Wentworth
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 8th district
In office
March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855
Preceded byHorace Mann
Succeeded byChauncey L. Knapp
Personal details
Born
Theodore Trapplan Michael Wentworth

(1802-02-24)February 24, 1802
Dover, New Hampshire
DiedJune 12, 1875(1875-06-12) (aged 73)
Lowell, Massachusetts
Resting placeLowell Cemetery
Political partyWhig
OccupationLawyer

Theodore Trapplan "Tappan" Michael Wentworth (February 24, 1802 – June 12, 1875) was an American lawyer and politician who served one term as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1853 to 1855.

Early life and career

Wentworth was born in Dover, New Hampshire, on February 24, 1802. He received a liberal schooling, and worked as a store clerk in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, and South Berwick, Maine.

He then studied law with William Burleigh, was admitted to the bar in 1826, and commenced practice in York County, Maine.

Political career

He moved to Lowell, Massachusetts, in 1833 and continued the practice of law. Wentworth was a member of the committee which drafted Lowell's city charter, and was a member of the Lowell city council from 1836 to 1841, and was the council president beginning in 1837.

Massachusetts legislature

He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1851, 1859, 1860, 1863, and 1864, and in the Massachusetts State Senate in 1848, 1849, 1865, and 1866.

Congress

Wentworth was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-third Congress, defeating Henry Wilson. He served from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress.

Later career

After leaving Congress, Wentworth returned to practicing law. He was also active in several business ventures including railroads and banking, and served as president of Rhode Island's National Rubber Company.

Death and burial

He died in Lowell on June 12, 1875, and was interred in Lowell Cemetery.

Family

In 1842 Wentworth married Anne McNeil, a daughter of Solomon McNeil and niece of John McNeil Jr. John McNeil was married to Elizabeth Pierce, the daughter of Benjamin Pierce, and the sister of Benjamin Kendrick Pierce and Franklin Pierce. Because of the family connection to Franklin Pierce, who was president during Wentworth's House term, Wentworth was able to maintain cordial relations with Democrats despite disagreeing with them politically. As a result, he was sometimes employed by Whigs as a negotiator to create compromises with congressional Democrats and the Pierce administration.

References

  • United States Congress. "Tappan Wentworth (id: W000297)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Tappan Wentworth in History of Middlesex County, Massachusetts. Volume 1. 1890. D. Hamilton Hurd, author.
Wikisource has the text of a 1900 Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography article about Tappan Wentworth.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 8th congressional district
1853–1855 		Succeeded by

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