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William Appleton


Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st & 5th district
In office
March 4, 1851March 3, 1855
March 4, 1861September 27, 1861
Preceded by Samuel A. Eliot
Charles Allen
Anson Burlingame
Succeeded by Zeno Scudder
Anson Burlingame
Samuel Hooper

Born November 16, 1786(1786-11-16)
Brookfield, Massachusetts, U.S.
Died February 15, 1862 (aged 75)
Longwood, Massachusetts, U.S.
Political party Whig, Constitutional Union
Spouse(s) Mary Ann Appleton
Profession Politician, Banker, Merchant

William Appleton (November 16, 1786February 15, 1862) was a congressman from Massachusetts from 1851 to 1855 and briefly during the Civil War.

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Born in Brookfield, Massachusetts, the son of the Reverend Joseph Appleton, he attended schools in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, Francestown, New Hampshire and Tyngsboro, Massachusetts. At fifteen years of age he started work at a country store in Temple, New Hampshire and later moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1807 to engaged in mercantile pursuits. He became President of the Boston Branch of the United States Bank in 1832 and served until 1836. He was also at one time president of Massachusetts General Hospital.

In 1850, Appleton was elected a Whig to the 32nd Congress to represent Massachusetts's first district. He won reelection to the 33rd Congress, this time representing Massachusetts's fifth district, however lost the elections to the two following congresses in 1854 and 1856. He was later re-elected to the congress in 1860 as a Constitutional Unionist and started in 1861, but resigned later the same year due to failing health.

Appleton died the year after his resignation on February 15, 1862 in Longwood, Massachusetts. He was interred in Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

His diaries were published in 1922 entitled Selections from the diaries of William Appleton, 1786-1862. Appleton was the first cousin of congressman Nathan Appleton and first cousin, once removed of writer and artist Thomas Gold Appleton.

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United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Samuel A. Eliot
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 1st congressional district

March 4, 1851March 3, 1853
Succeeded by
Zeno Scudder
Preceded by
Charles Allen
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district

March 4, 1853March 3, 1855
Succeeded by
Anson Burlingame
Preceded by
Anson Burlingame
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 5th congressional district

March 4, 1861September 27, 1861
Succeeded by
Samuel Hooper



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