1908 William Faxon senator Massachusetts

Dr. William Otis Faxon (October 24, 1853 – November 12, 1942) served in the Massachusetts Senate and the

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Biography

William Otis Faxon was born in Stoughton, Massachusetts on October 24, 1843. He graduated from the

Boston University School of Medicine The Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine, formerly the Boston University School of Medicine, is one of the graduate schools of Boston University. Founded in 1848, the medical school was the first institution in the world ...

in 1876. He married Susan Reed Wales on July 10, 1878, and they had one son. She died in 1914. A Republican, Faxon served in the

from 1905 to 1906, and in the State Senate from 1907 to 1908. He died in

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on November 12, 1942.

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