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Briggs, George Nixon

lawyer, jurist, governor, congressman, was born April 12, 1796, in Adams, Mass. He was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1831 to 1843; and from 1844 to 1851 was governor of Massachusetts. He was a member of the state constitutional convention of 1853; from 1853 to 1859 held the position of judge of the court of common pleas; was a trustee of Williams college for sixteen years; and a noted advocate of the temperance cause.

He died Sept. 12, 1861, in Pittsfield, Mass. was