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George W. Kittredge
American politician

George W. Kittredge

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American politician
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Male
Place of birth
Epping, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Place of death
Newmarket, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, USA
Age
76 years
Education
Harvard Medical School
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Biography

George Washington Kittredge (January 31, 1805 – March 6, 1881) was a U.S. Representative from New Hampshire.

Born in Epping, New Hampshire, Kittredge received a liberal schooling. He attended the medical department of Harvard University and engaged in the practice of medicine in Newmarket, New Hampshire, in 1835.

Kittredge served as member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1835, 1847, 1848, and 1852, and served as Speaker in the last-named year. He was a director of the Boston and Maine Railroad, 1836-1856. He served as president of the Newmarket Savings Bank for forty years.

Kittredge was elected as an Anti-Nebraska Democrat to the Thirty-third Congress (March 4, 1853 – March 3, 1855). He served as chairman of the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of War (Thirty-third Congress). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress and for election in 1856 to the Thirty-fifth Congress.

Following his time in Washington, Kittredge resumed the practice of medicine. He died in Newmarket, New Hampshire on March 6, 1881. He was interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston.

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