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Elias Perkins (5 April 1767 – 27 September 1845) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-CN) from 1801 to 1803, succeeding Chauncey Goodrich and preceding Simeon Baldwin.

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Elias Perkins was born in Lisbon, Connecticut in 1767, and he served in the State Senate from 1795 to 1800 and from 1814 to 1815, in the US House of Representatives from 1801 to 1803, as Chief Justice of the New London County Court from 1807 to 1825, as a State Senator from 1817 to 1822, and as Mayor of New London from 1829 to 1832.

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