John Holmes (14 March 1773 – 7 July 1843) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-MA 14) from 4 March 1817 to 15 March 1820, succeeding Cyrus King, and a US Senator from Maine from 13 June 1820 to 3 March 1827 (preceding Albion Parris) and from 15 January 1829 to 3 March 1833 (succeedin Parris and preceding Ether Shepley).
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John Holmes was born in Kingston, Massachusetts in 1773, and he became a lawyer in 1799. He served on the general court and in the state legislature before helping to execute the Treaty of Ghent's border alignment in the Passamaquoddy Bay in 1816, organizing state prisons, and revising the state criminal code. From 1817 to 1820, he served in the US House of Representatives, but he resigned in order to become one of Maine's inaugural US Senators. He represented Maine from 1820 to 1827 and from 1829 to 1833, and he supported William H. Crawford and John Quincy Adams against Andrew Jackson. He also supported the unpopular Missouri Compromise during his time in office. He died in 1843.