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Governor of Massachusetts; Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Associate Justice

United States PoliticiansLived 1746 to 1799 · aged 52

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Increase Sumner was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts. He was the fifth governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1797 to 1799.

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John Hancock appointed Sumner to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Sumner's grave in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston, 2009

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Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

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Increase Sumner was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts. He was the fifth governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1797 to 1799. Trained as a lawyer, he served in the provisional government of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War, and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782. Appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the same year, he served there as an associate justice until 1797.

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