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Tappan Wentworth
1802–1875
A 19th-century lawyer, judge, and politician, he moved from New Hampshire to Lowell and built a public career that reached both the Massachusetts legislature and the U.S. House of Representatives. His life traces the energetic civic world of New England in the decades before and after the Civil War.
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Born in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1802, he studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1825, and soon settled in Lowell, Massachusetts. There he practiced law and later served in a range of public roles, including as a judge of probate for Middlesex County and as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and Senate.
He is best remembered nationally for serving in the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts in the 1850s. His career reflects the close ties between law and politics in 19th-century New England, where local leadership often opened the way to state and national office.
Wentworth died in 1875 and was buried at Lowell Cemetery. Though not among the best-known political figures of his era, he left behind the record of a long public life shaped by law, government, and civic service.