Nathaniel Upham

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Nathaniel Upham (June 9, 1774 - July 10, 1829) was a United States Representative from New Hampshire. He was born in Deerfield, New Hampshire. He pursued classical studies and attended the Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter in 1793. He engaged in mercantile pursuits at Gilmanton in 1794, at Deerfield in 1796, at Portsmouth in 1801, and at Rochester in 1802 and afterward.

Upham was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives 1807-1809. He was a governor’s counselor in 1811 and 1812 and was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Fifteenth Congress and reelected to the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Congresses (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1823). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1822. After leaving Congress, he returned to Rochester, and became interested in educational work. He died in Rochester in 1829 and was buried in Old Rochester Cemetery.

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• Nathaniel Upham at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress