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Stearns, Ashael

lawyer, educator, congressman, author, was born in 1774 in Massachusetts. He was several years county attorney for Middlesex county; and was a representative in congress from Massachusetts from 1815 to 1817.

He was appointed professor of law at Cambridge in 1817, and continued in the office until 1829. In 1824 he published a volume on Real Actions. He died Feb. died Feb. 5, 1839, in Cambridge, Mass.

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