Benjamin Orr (Massachusetts politician)
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Benjamin Orr (1772–1828) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Orr was born in Bedford, New Hampshire on December 1, 1772. He was self-educated and apprenticed as a carpenter. He attended Fryeburg (N.H.) Academy, taught school at Concord and New Milford, New Hampshire; and graduated from Dartmouth College in 1798. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1801 and commenced the practice of law in Brunswick, Maine (then a part of Massachusetts).
Orr moved to Topsham, Maine in 1801 and continued the practice of law; overseer of Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, and served as trustee from 1814 to 1828 and as treasurer in 1815 and 1816.
Orr was elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth Congress (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819) but was not a candidate for renomination in 1818.
He resumed the practice of law in Topsham and, in 1822, returned to Brunswick to continued the practice of law.
He died in Brunswick, on September 3, 1828 and he was interred in Pine Grove Cemetery.
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| Preceded by: Benjamin Brown |
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 16th congressional district (Maine district) March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819 |
Succeeded by: Mark Langdon Hill |
