Benjamin Brown

Federalist Representative of Massachusetts's 16th district

Congresses Served

House Terms

September 23, 1756 (74 years old)

Birthday

September 17, 1831

Death

Served as a United States Representative from Massachusetts’s 16th congressional district from 1815 to 1817.
Practiced medicine as a physician and surgeon, including service aboard the American frigate “Boston” during the American Revolutionary War.
Captured in 1781 while serving on the warship Thorne and later escaped from imprisonment.
Held multiple terms in the Massachusetts state house of representatives in the years 1809, 1811, 1812, and 1819.
Elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress.
Resumed medical practice after leaving Congress until his death.
Married Susan Wells and had several children, including a son who also became a physician.
Died in 1831 in Waldoboro, Maine.