Charles H. Peaslee
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Charles Hazen Peaslee (February 6, 1804 – September 18, 1866) was an America politician who served as a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire during the mid-19th century.
Biography
Born in Gilmanton, New Hampshire, Peaslee attended Gilmanton Academy and was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, in 1824. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1828, commencing practice in Concord. He served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives, 1833–1837, and as Adjutant General of the New Hampshire Militia, 1839–1847.
Peaslee was elected as a Democrat to the Thirtieth, Thirty-first, and Thirty-second Congresses (March 4, 1847 – March 3, 1853). He served as chairman of the Committee on Militia (Thirty-first and Thirty-second Congresses). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1852.
He served as collector of the port of Boston by appointment of President Franklin Pierce, 1853–1857. He moved to Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 1860. He died while on a visit to Saint Paul, Minnesota, on September 18, 1866. He was interred in Harmony Grove Cemetery in Portsmouth.
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