Henry Dearborn (23 February 1751 – 6 June 1829) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 4) from 4 March 1793 to 4 March 1795 (succeeding Theodore Sedgwick and preceding Dwight Foster) and from MA-12 from 4 March 1795 to 4 March 1797 (preceding Isaac Parker), as well as Secretary of War from 5 March 1801 to 4 March 1809 (succeeding Samuel Dexter and preceding William Eustis).
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Henry Dearborn was born in North Hampton, New Hampshire in 1751, and he rose to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After the war, he settled in Gardiner, Maine, and he served in the US House of Representatives from 1793 to 1797 as a Democratic-Republican. He then served as Secretary of War from 1801 to 1809, helping President Thomas Jefferson form a policy on Native Americans. During the War of 1812, he commanded the Northeastern theatre from 1812 to 6 July 1813, and he thwarted New Englander secession, although his campaigns in Canada were ineffective, and he was recalled in 1813. From 1822 to 1824, he served as ambassador to Portugal, and he died in 1829.