Clement Dorsey | |
State2: | Maryland |
District: | 1st |
Term Start: | March 4, 1825 |
Term End: | March 4, 1831 |
Preceded: | Raphael Neale |
Successor: | Daniel Jenifer |
Birth Date: | 1778 |
Birth Place: | Anne Arundel County, Maryland |
Death Date: | August 6, 1848 |
Death Place: | Leonardtown, Maryland, U.S. |
Party: | National Republican Party |
Clement F. Dorsey (1778 – August 6, 1848) was an American politician from Maryland.
He was born near Oaklands in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, in 1778; attended St. John's College, Annapolis, Maryland; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice. He was a major in the Maryland Militia 1812–1818. He was elected from Maryland's 1st Congressional district to the Nineteenth, Twentieth, and Twenty-first Congresses (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1831); resumed the practice of law; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress; judge of the fifth circuit court of Maryland until his death in Leonardtown, St. Mary's County, Maryland, August 6, 1848; interment in a private burial ground at "Summerseat," near Laurel Grove, Maryland.