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After studying law with Daniel Webster he was admitted to the bar in 1831 and practiced in Boston. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1835 to 1840, and served as Speaker of the House of that body from 1838 to 1840.

Winthrop was elected as a Whig to the 26th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Abbott LawrenceAbbott Lawrence ( December 16, 1792 August 18, 1855) was an American businessman and politician, and the founder of Lawrence, Massachusetts. Born in Groton, Massachusetts, he attended Groton Academy, (now Lawrence Academy at Groton. After graduation he be; was reelected to the 27th Congress and served from November 9, 1840, to May 25, 1842, when he resigned; subsequently elected to the 27th Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of his successor, Nathan Appleton ; reelected to the 28th and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from November 29, 1842, to July 30, 1850, when he again resigned to become a Senator.

He was a Speaker of the United States House of RepresentativesThe Speaker of the House of Representatives is the presiding officer of the United States House of Representatives. The office is provided for in the United States Constitution in the second section of the first article, which states: :"The House of Repre during the 30th Congress; appointed as a Whig to the United States Senate on July 27, 1850, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Daniel Webster and served from July 30, 1850, to February 1, 1851, when a successor was elected; unsuccessful candidate for election to the vacancy in 1851; was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Massachusetts the same year; presidential elector on the Whig ticket in 1852.

Winthrop engaged in literary, historical, and philanthropic pursuits until he died in Boston in 1894. He was interred in Mount Auburn CemeteryFounded in 1831 as "America's first garden cemetery", Mount Auburn Cemetery is an Elysium where, traditionally, chaste classical monuments were set in rolling landscaped terrain. Mount Auburn Cemetery is credited as the beginning of the American public pa, Cambridge, Massachusetts2000 Cambridge is a city in the greater Boston area in Massachusetts, United States. It was named in honor of Cambridge, England, the town where its founding fathers had studied ( Cambridge University). Cambridge is perhaps most famous for three things: H.

Winthrop is the great-great-grandfather of United States Senator and 20042004 is a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 2004 calendar), and has also been designated the: International Year of Rice International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition Elections are to be held in 73 co Presidential candidate John KerryJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is the junior United States Senator from Massachusetts. In 2004, he ran an unsuccessful bid for the presidency as the Democratic Party's nominee, losing to incumbent president George W. Early life and education K.

This article incorporates facts obtained from the public domain Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.