Zeno Scudder Explained

Zeno Scudder
Image Name:ZenoScudder.jpg
Office:Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
Constituency: (1851–53)
(1853–54)
Term Start:March 4, 1851
Term End:March 4, 1854
Predecessor:Joseph Grinnell
Successor:Thomas D. Eliot
Office3:President of the
Massachusetts State Senate
Term Start3:1848
Term End3:1848
Predecessor3:William B. Calhoun
Successor3:Joseph Bell
Office4:Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate
Term Start4:1846
Term End4:1848
Birth Date:August 18, 1807
Birth Place:Barnstable, Massachusetts
Death Place:Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts
Party:Whig

Zeno Scudder (August 18, 1807 – June 26, 1857) was an American politician and attorney who was the president of the Massachusetts Senate in 1848 and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1851 until 1854.

Biography

Scudder was born in Osterville, Massachusetts, on August 18, 1807, as the son of Deacon Josiah and Hannah Scudder. He had a paralysis in his right leg that made a naval career impossible. He studied medicine at Bowdoin College and then law at the Cambridge Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and conducted practice in Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Scudder was a member of the Massachusetts Senate from 1846 until 1848 and served as Senate President. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts from 1851 until 1854.

Scudder was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses. His special interest while in Congress was American Fisheries. He served from March 4, 1851, until his resignation on March 4, 1854.

Scudder died in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1857, and was interred in Hillside Cemetery, Osterville.

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