Jonas Sibley (March 7, 1762 – February 5, 1834) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Massachusetts
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.
He was born in
Sutton
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in the
Province of Massachusetts Bay
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, and completed preparatory studies there. He married Lydia Rice of Sutton. He was Selectman, Town moderator, and Town treasurer. He served as member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
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, and was a member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
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. He also served as delegate to the state constitutional convention in 1820.
Sibley was elected as an
Adams-Clay Republican to the
Eighteenth Congress (March 4, 1823 – March 3, 1825). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection, then engaged in agricultural pursuits. He died in Sutton on February 5, 1834, and was interred in Center Cemetery.
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1762 births
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Democratic-Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts
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