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Martin Kinsley (June 2, 1754 – June 20, 1835) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.Born in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, Kinsley graduated from Harvard College in 1778.He studied medicine.He became a purveyor of supplies in the Revolutionary Army. He served as Treasurer of the Town of Hardwick.He moved to Hampden, and was a representative of that town in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.He served as member of the executive council in 1810 and 1811, as a judge of the court of common pleas in 1811, as judge of the probate court, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate.
Kinsley was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress.He died in Roxbury, June 20, 1835.