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Lowell, John (Lawyer jurist congressman)

lawyer, jurist, congressman, was born June 17, 1743, in Newburyport, Mass. He settled in Boston as a lawyer; was a delegate to the continental congress from 1782 to 1783; and was a member of the convention which framed the constitution of Massachusetts.

He was appointed judge of the district court for the Massachusetts district in 1789; and in 1801 was appointed chief justice of the first circuit. He was one of the founders of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He wrote an English poem, No. 3, in the Pietas, printed at Cambridge. He died May 10, 1802, in Roxbury, Mass.