WINGATE, Paine, senator, born in Amesbury, Massachusetts, 14 May, 1739; died in Stratham, New Hampshire, 7 March, 1838. He was a great-grandson of John Wingate, of Dover (1660), grandson of Colonel Joshua, who was at the capture of Louisburg, and son of Reverend Paine Wingate, minister of Amesbury. The son was graduated at Harvard in 1759, studied theology, and was ordained a minister of the Congregational church at Hampton Falls, New Hampshire, 14 December, 1763, where he preached till his dismissal, 18 March, 1776. He then removed to Stratham, New Hampshire, and became a farmer. He was a member of the New Hampshire legislature, a delegate from that state to the Continental congress an 1787-'8, and was United States senator from New Hampshire from 4 March, 1789, till 2 March, 1793. He served in congress from New Hampshire in 1793-'5, and was a judge of the state superior court from 1798 till 1809. He was the last survivor of the original members of the United States senate, and was for several years the oldest graduate of Harvard.