Jefferson Bancroft

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Jefferson Bancroft
Jefferson Bancroft portrait at Lowell Masonic Temple; Lowell, MA; 2012-05-18.jpg
6th Mayor of
Lowell, Massachusetts
In office
1846–1848
Preceded by Elisha Huntington
Succeeded by Josiah B. French
Member of the
Lowell, Massachusetts
Board of Aldermen
In office
1841–1842
Member of the
Lowell, Massachusetts
City Council
In office
1839–1840
Personal details
Born April 30, 1803
Warwick, Massachusetts
Died January 3, 1890(1890-01-03) (aged 86)
Tyngsborough, Massachusetts
Political party Whig
Occupation Farmer, Deputy Sheriff

Jefferson Bancroft (April 30, 1803 – January 3, 1890) was a farmer and politician who served as the sixth Mayor of Lowell, Massachusetts.

Lowell, Massachusetts City in Massachusetts, United States

Lowell is a city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Located in Middlesex County, Lowell was a county seat until Massachusetts disbanded county government in 1999. With an estimated population of 109,945 in 2014, it is the fourth-largest city in Massachusetts, and the second-largest in the Boston metropolitan statistical area. The city is also part of a smaller Massachusetts statistical area called Greater Lowell, as well as New England's Merrimack Valley region.

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Bancroft was born on April 30, 1803 in Warwick, Massachusetts. [1] [2]

Warwick, Massachusetts Town in Massachusetts, United States

Warwick is a town in Franklin County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 780 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.

From 1831 to his death in 1890 Bancroft was a Deputy Sheriff of Middlesex County. [3]

Bancroft was a member of the Lowell City Council [3] in 1839 and 1840, and a member of the Lowell Board of Aldermen from 1841 and 1842. [3]

Massachusetts House of Representatives

Beginning in 1840 [1] Bancroft served four terms in the Massachusetts House [3] representing Lowell. [1] [3] While in the Massachusetts House Bancroft sat as a member of the Whig Party. [4]

Massachusetts House of Representatives lower house of U.S. state legislature

The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is composed of 160 members elected from 14 counties each divided into single-member electoral districts across the Commonwealth. The House of Representatives convenes at the Massachusetts State House in Boston.

Whig Party (United States) Political party in the USA in the 19th century

The Whig Party was a political party active in the middle of the 19th century in the United States. Four presidents belonged to the party while in office. It emerged in the 1830s as the leading opponent of Jacksonian democracy, pulling together former members of the National Republican and the Anti-Masonic Party. It had some links to the upscale traditions of the long-defunct Federalist Party. Along with the rival Democratic Party, it was central to the Second Party System from the early 1840s to the mid-1860s. It originally formed in opposition to the policies of President Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party. It became a formal party within his second term, and slowly receded influence after 1854. In particular terms, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the presidency and favored a program of modernization, banking and economic protectionism to stimulate manufacturing. It appealed to entrepreneurs, planters, reformers and the emerging urban middle class, but had little appeal to farmers or unskilled workers. It included many active Protestants and voiced a moralistic opposition to the Jacksonian Indian removal. Party founders chose the "Whig" name to echo the American Whigs of the 18th century who fought for independence. The political philosophy of the American Whig Party was not related to the British Whig party. Historian Frank Towers has specified a deep ideological divide:

Death

Gravestone among the Bancroft family lot in Lowell Cemetery Jefferson Bancroft gravestone; Lowell Cemetery; Lowell, MA; 2011-09-11.jpg
Gravestone among the Bancroft family lot in Lowell Cemetery

Bancroft died on January 3, 1890 at his farm in Tyngborough, Massachusetts. [2] He is buried in Lowell Cemetery.

Lowell Cemetery A cemetery in Lowell, Massachusetts

Lowell Cemetery is a cemetery located in Lowell, Massachusetts. Founded in 1841 and located on the banks of the Concord River, the cemetery is one of the oldest garden cemeteries in the nation, inspired by Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Many of Lowell's wealthy industrialists are buried here, under ornate Victorian tombstones. A 73-acre (30 ha) portion of the 84 acres (34 ha) cemetery was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Poole, Alexis (1847), Statistical View of the Executive and Legislative Department of the Government of Massachusetts, Boston, MA: The Government of Massachusetts, p. Page 7.
  2. 1 2 Contributions of the Old Residents' Historical Association Vol. IV, No. 3, Lowell, MA: Old Residents' Historical Association, September 1890, p. 286.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Contributions of the Old Residents' Historical Association Vol. IV, No. 3, Lowell, MA: Old Residents' Historical Association, September 1890, p. 287.
  4. ↑ Answer of the Whig Members of the Legislature of Massachusetts, Constituting a Majority of both Branches: to the Address of His Excellency Marcus Morton, Delivered in the Convention of the Two Houses, January 22, 1840, Boston, Massachusetts: Massachusetts General Court, Whig Party, 1840, p. 36.
Political offices
Preceded by
Elisha Huntington 		6th Mayor of
Lowell, Massachusetts
1846–1848 		Succeeded by
Josiah B. French
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