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SPRAGUE, Peleg, jurist, born in Duxbury, Massachusetts, 27 April, 1793 ; died in Boston, Massachusetts, 13 October. 1880-After graduation at Harvard in 1812, he studiect in the Litchfield law-school, was admitted to the bar in 1815, and practised in Augusta, Maine, and afterward in Hallowell. He was a member of the Maine legislature in 1820-'1, elected to congress as a Whig, serving from 5 December, 1825, till 3 March, 1829, and then chosen United States senator from Maine, serving from 7 December, 1829, till 1 January, 1835, when he resigned and practised law in Boston. He was a presidential elector on the Itarrison and Tyler ticket in 1840, and from 1841 till 1865 was United States judge for the district of Massachusetts. He was the last surviving member of the United States senate of 1830-'2, in which Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, Thomas H. Benton, and RobertY. Hayne served. As a judge and lawyer he was much esteemed, and he was regarded as a fine debater. Harvard gave him the degree of EL. D. in 1847. He published "Speeches and Addresses" (Boston, 1858), and his "Decisions in Admiralty and Maritime Cases in the District Court of the United States for the District of Massachusetts, 1841-1861," were edited by Francis E. Parker (Philadelphia, 1861). In this work "Two Charges to the Grand Jury," 1851 and 1861, are included.
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