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Sabine, Lorenzo

merchant, state legislator, congressman, author, was born Feb. 28, 1803, in New Lisbon, N. H. He was for some time secretary of the Boston board of trade; was three times elected to the legislature of Maine from Eastport; and was at one time deputy collector of the port of Passamaquoddy. He held, in Massachusetts, the position of confidential agent of the treasury department, and was a representative from Massachusetts to the thirty-second congress. He was the author of a Life of Commodore Preble; The American Loyalists; Report on the American Fisheries; and Notes on Duels and Duelling. He died April 14, 1877, in Boston, Mass.

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