Frederic Thomas Greenhalge (19 July 1842 – 5 March 1896) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R-MA 8) from 4 March 1889 to 3 March 1891 (succeeding Charles Herbert Allen and preceding Moses T. Stevens) and Governor of Massachusetts from 4 January 1894 to 5 March 1896 (succeeding William E. Russell and preceding Roger Wolcott.
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Frederic Thomas Greenhalgh was born in Clitheroe, Lancashire, England in 1842, and he was raised in Eshton and Edenfield. In 1855, the family emigrated to Lowell, Massachusetts, and Greenhalgh (who changed his name to Greenhalge) taught school in Chelmsford and practiced law in Lowell. He served on Lowell's common council from 1868 to 1869, on the school committee from 1871 to 1873, on the police court from 1874 to 1884, as Mayor from 1880 to 1881, in the State House in 1885, in the US House of Representatives from 1889 to 1891 (he was more conservative than 68% of his Republican peers), and as Governor from 1894 until his death from kidney disease in 1896.