Peleg Tallman Explained

Peleg Tallman
State:Massachusetts
Term Start:March 4, 1811
Term End:March 3, 1813
Predecessor:Orchard Cook
Successor:Samuel Davis
Birth Date:24 July 1764
Birth Place:Tiverton, Rhode Island Colony, British America
Death Place:Bath, Maine, U.S.
Party:Democratic-Republican
Occupation:Merchant

Peleg Tallman (July 24, 1764  - March 12, 1840) was a United States representative from Massachusetts. He was born in Tiverton in the Rhode Island Colony and attended public schools. He served in the Revolutionary War on the privateer Trumbull, and lost an arm in an engagement in 1780. He was captured and imprisoned by the British. After the War, he engaged in mercantile pursuits in Bath (which was a part of Massachusetts' District of Maine until 1820).

He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811  - March 3, 1813). He declined to be a candidate for renomination, and became an overseer of Bowdoin College 1802-1840. Tallman served as a member of the Maine State Senate, and died in Bath. His interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery, and was reinterred in Forest Hills Cemetery, Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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