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American politician

Sherman Leland


President of the Massachusetts Senate
In office 1828–1829
Preceded by	John Mills
Succeeded by	Samuel Lathrop
Member of the Massachusetts Senate Norfolk County District
In office 1828–1829
Member of the Massachusetts Senate Norfolk County District
In office 1823–1824
Member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1820
In office 1820–1820
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Norfolk County District
In office 1818–1821
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Washington County District
In office 1812–1812

Personal details
Born	March 29, 1783 Grafton, Massachusetts
Died	November 19, 1853 (aged 70) Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Nationality	American
Spouse	Elizabeth Adams
Children	Edwin S. Leland
Profession	Lawyer
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Sherman Leland (March 29, 1783 – November 19, 1853) was a Massachusetts lawyer who served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and as a member, and President of, the Massachusetts Senate. During the War of 1812, he served in a regiment of U.S. Volunteers, and subsequently the 34th U.S. Infantry, at Eastport, Maine.

References

Leland, Sherman: "The Leland Magazine, Or, a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland, and His Descendants, Containing an Account of One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Four Persons In Ten Generations, and Embracing Nearly Every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850", Boston, Massachusetts: Wier & White, pp. 130–132 (1850).
Smith, Joshua M. Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783–1820. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006.

Notes

^ Leland, Sherman (1850), The Leland Magazine, Or, a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland, and His Descendants, Containing an Account of One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Four Persons In Ten Generations, and Embracing Nearly Every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: Wier & White, p. 132
^ Leland, Sherman (1850), The Leland Magazine, Or, a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland, and His Descendants, Containing an Account of One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Four Persons In Ten Generations, and Embracing Nearly Every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: Wier & White, p. 131
Leland, Sherman (1850), The Leland Magazine, Or, a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland, and His Descendants, Containing an Account of One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Four Persons In Ten Generations, and Embracing Nearly Every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: Wier & White, p. 128
Leland, Sherman (1850), The Leland Magazine, Or, a Genealogical Record of Henry Leland, and His Descendants, Containing an Account of One Thousand Six Hundred and Twenty-Four Persons In Ten Generations, and Embracing Nearly Every Person of the Name of Leland in America, from 1653 to 1850, Boston, Massachusetts: Wier & White, pp. 130–132

External links

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Political offices
Preceded byJohn Mills	President of the Massachusetts Senate 1828-1829	Succeeded bySamuel Lathrop

v t e Presidents of the Massachusetts Senate
Cushing Powell Adams S. Phillips Adams Cobb Otis J. Bacon S. Dana Otis S. Dana J. Phillips Silsbee Mills S. Leland Lathrop Fowler Saltonstall Thorndike Pickman Bliss Mann M. Lawrence King Quincy P. Leland Robinson Quincy Lincoln Calhoun Scudder Bell Wilder Wilson Warren Cook Benchley Baker Upham Phelps Claflin Clifford Field Pond Brastow Pitman Brastow H. Coolidge Loring Cogswell Bishop Crocker Bruce Pillsbury Boardman Hartwell Sprague Pinkerton Butler G. Lawrence Smith Soule Jones W. Dana Chapple Treadway Greenwood C. Coolidge H. Wells McKnight Allen W. Wells G. Bacon Fish Moran Wragg Cotton Goodwin Hunt A. Coolidge Nicholson Richardson Dolan Richardson Furbush Holmes Powers Donahue Harrington Bulger Birmingham Travaglini Murray Rosenberg Chandler Spilka

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