Gideon Barstow, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGideon Barstow
American politician
Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1783
Place of Birth: Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, United States
Date of Death: 26-Mar-1852
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Virgo 
About Gideon Barstow
- Gideon Barstow (September 7, 1783 – March 26, 1852) was a U.S.
- Representative from Massachusetts.
- Born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, Barstow attended the common schools and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island from 1799 to 1801.
- He studied medicine, was admitted to practice and settled in Salem, Massachusetts.
- He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1820. Barstow was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1822. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate.
- He served as presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Clay and Sergeant in 1832.
- He moved to St.
- Augustine, Florida, because of ill health and engaged in mercantile pursuits.
- Barstow died in St.
- Augustine March 26, 1852 and was interred in Huguenot Cemetery.
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