Martin Kinsley | |
State: | Massachusetts |
Term Start: | March 4, 1819 |
Term End: | March 3, 1821 |
Succeeded: | District eliminated[1] |
Term3: | 1790–1792 1794–1796 1801–1804 1806 |
Term Start5: | 1810 |
Term End5: | 1811 |
Term6: | 1814 |
Office7: | Judge of the Probate Court |
Office8: | Judge of the Court of Common Pleas |
Term Start8: | 1811 |
Term End8: | 1811 |
Birth Date: | 2 June 1754 |
Birth Place: | Bridgewater, Province of Massachusetts Bay, British America |
Death Place: | Roxbury, Massachusetts, U.S |
Alma Mater: | Harvard |
Martin Kinsley (June 2, 1754 – June 20, 1835) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Bridgewater in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, 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.