Essex County is a county in the northeastern part of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. At the 2020 census,the total population was 809,829,making it the third-most populous county in the state,and the seventy-eighth-most populous in the country. It is part of the Greater Boston area. The largest city in Essex County is Lynn. The county was named after the English county of Essex. It has two traditional county seats:Salem and Lawrence. Prior to the dissolution of the county government in 1999,Salem had jurisdiction over the Southern Essex District,and Lawrence had jurisdiction over the Northern Essex District,but currently these cities do not function as seats of government. However,the county and the districts remain as administrative regions recognized by various governmental agencies,which gathered vital statistics or disposed of judicial case loads under these geographic subdivisions,and are required to keep the records based on them. The county has been designated the Essex National Heritage Area by the National Park Service.
The Crowninshield family is an American family that was historically prominent in seafaring,political and military leadership,and the literary world. The founder of the American family emigrated from what is now Germany in the 17th century. The family is one of several known collectively as Boston Brahmins,a reference to old wealthy New England families of British Protestant origin that became influential in the development of American institutions and culture.
Stephen Higginson was an American merchant and shipmaster from Boston,Massachusetts. He was a delegate for Massachusetts to the Continental Congress in 1783. He took an active part in suppressing Shays' Rebellion,was the author of the Laco letters (1789),and served the United States government as navy agent from May 11 to June 22,1798. Although he was a privateer during the American Revolutionary War he became a "blue light",extreme-Federalist during the War of 1812 and was one of the members of the Essex Junto.
Frank Weston Benson,frequently referred to as Frank W. Benson,was an American artist from Salem,Massachusetts,known for his Realistic portraits,American Impressionist paintings,watercolors and etchings. He began his career painting portraits of distinguished families and murals for the Library of Congress. Some of his best known paintings depict his daughters outdoors at Benson's summer home,Wooster Farm,on the island of North Haven,Maine. He also produced numerous oil,wash and watercolor paintings and etchings of wildfowl and landscapes.
Bailey Bartlett was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Francis Xavier Bellotti is an American lawyer and politician who served as both the 39th attorney general and the 61st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts.
Moses Tyler Stevens was an American textile manufacturer and a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.
Dudley Leavitt Pickman (1779–1846) was an American merchant who built one of the great trading firms in Salem,Massachusetts,during the seaport's ascendancy as a trading power in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Pickman was a partner in the firm Devereux,Pickman &Silsbee and a state senator. Among the wealthiest Salem merchants of his day,Pickman used his own clipper ships to trade with the Far East in an array of goods ranging from indigo and coffee to pepper and spices,and was one of the state's earliest financiers,backing everything from cotton and woolen mills to railroads to water-generated power plants. Pickman also helped found what is today's Peabody Essex Museum.
Peter Forman is president and CEO of the South Shore (MA) Chamber of Commerce. He was formerly an American politician who served as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives,Sheriff of Plymouth County,Massachusetts,and as a member of the Paul Celucci and Jane M. Swift administrations.
Byron J. Matthews was an American politician who served as Mayor of Newburyport,Massachusetts from 1968 to 1978 and Massachusetts Secretary of Communities and Development from 1979 to 1983.
The 2013 United States Senate special election in Massachusetts was held on June 25,2013,in order to fill the Massachusetts Class 2 United States Senate seat for the remainder of the term ending January 3,2015.
Timothy A. Bassett is an American politician who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.
Clifford Holmes Marshall was an American politician who served as a State Representative and Sheriff of Norfolk County,Massachusetts.
Frederick Robinson served as sheriff of Essex County,Massachusetts,and as the President of the Massachusetts Senate.
William Joseph Casey (1905-1992) was an American politician who was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Sheriff of Essex County,Massachusetts.
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth,or "MassINC," is registered as a non-profit 501(c) organization that functions as a nonpartisan,evidence-based think tank. Its mission is to develop a public agenda for Massachusetts that promotes the growth and vitality of the middle class. Its governing philosophy is rooted in the ideals embodied in the American Dream:equality of opportunity,personal responsibility,and a strong commonwealth. Their mission is to promote a public agenda for the middle class and to help all citizens achieve the American dream.
David A. Lowy is an American attorney,academic and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 2016 to 2024. In February 2024 Lowy was named general counsel for the University of Massachusetts.
Charles H. Reardon is a former American penal official who served as sheriff of Essex County,Massachusetts from 1978 to 1996.
Dewey H. Perry was an American law enforcement officer from Vermont. He was most notable for his service as United States Marshal for the District of Vermont from 1954 to 1961.
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