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John Metcalf represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. [1] He was also town clerk for a total of 16 years, having first been elected in 1731. [2] Starting in 1716, he served 27 terms as selectman. [3]
Major Eleazer Lusher was a politician and military leader from Dedham, Massachusetts.
Samuel Dexter (1726—1810) was an early American politician from Dedham, Massachusetts.
John Fuller represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk for a total of four years, having first been elected in 1690. Also beginning in 1690, he began the first of his five terms as selectman.
Thomas Metcalf represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He also served 10 terms as selectman, beginning in 1678.
Josiah Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He served as selectman for five terms beginning in 1697.
Jonathan Metcalf represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk and selectman in 1755.
Dr. Joseph Richards represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. Beginning in 1731, he served five terms as selectman.
Eliphalet Pond (1704-1795) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Captain Ebenezer Battle, also known as Ebenezer Battelle, represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also a selectman in 1779. Battle fought the retreating British soldiers following the battles of Lexington and Concord. One of his men, Elias Haven, died at Menotomy. After the fighting ended, his men walked the entire length of the battlefield, collecting weapons and burying the dead.
Nathaniel Kingsbury represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk in 1783 and served five terms as selectman, beginning in 1773.
Isaac Bullard represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. He was also town clerk for a total of three years, having first been elected in 1784. He was also elected five times as selectman, beginning in 1773. Bullard was the first treasurer of Norfolk County, serving from 1793 to 1808.
Ebenezer Fisher represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court. The Fisher School, now in Westwood, Massachusetts, was named in his honor. He served as selectman in 1785. He voted against the Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike as a member of the legislature in 1802. Fisher Ames was a driver for the road, and his brother Nathaniel believed his no vote made him a "traitor" motivated by "an ancient prejudice against the Old Parish," i.e. modern day Dedham.
Richard Ellis represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
Captain Timothy Dwight (1629–1718) represented Dedham in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and was the progenitor of the Dwight family.
Michael Powell represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court in 1641 and 1648. His daughter, Sarah, married Timothy Dwight. He was also town clerk for a total of four years, having first been elected in 1643. He was a selectman for four years, beginning in 1641. He was the first tavern owner in Dedham.
John Hunting was Ruling Elder of the First Church and Parish in Dedham.
Richard Ellis represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court from 1825 to 1831 and in 1833. He also served for 29 nonconsecutive years as town clerk in Dedham, beginning in 1815.
Nathan Aldis was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on that town's Board of Selectmen in 1641, 1642, and 1644. He served in a variety of other positions in the town and served as a deacon at First Church and Parish in Dedham. He signed the Dedham Covenant.
Francis Chickering was an early settler of Dedham, Massachusetts who served in the Great and General Court of Massachusetts and on that town's Board of Selectmen for 15 years. He was also a teacher in the first public school in America, today well known as the Dedham Public Schools.
Samuel Morse (1585-1654) was an original proprietor of Dedham, Massachusetts who served on the board of selectmen for two years. He was also a founder of Medfield, Massachusetts when it broke away from Dedham. He was elected a selectman before joining the First Church and Parish in Dedham. He was a signer of the Dedham Covenant.
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