Josiah Quincy III (4 February 1772 – 1 July 1864) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-MA 1) from 4 March 1805 to 3 March 1813 (succeeding William Eustis and preceding Artemas Ward Jr.) and Mayor of Boston from 1 May 1823 to 5 January 1829 (succeeding John Phillips and preceding Harrison Gray Otis).
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Josiah Quincy III was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1772, the son of Josiah Quincy II. He graduated from Harvard in 1790 and became a leader of the Federalist Party in Boston, serving in the US House of Representatives from 1805 to 1813 and as Mayor of Boston from 1823 to 1829. He urged the strengthening of the US Navy in the years leading up to the War of 1812, and he left the US Congress in 1813 after seeing that the Federalist opposition to the Democratic-Republican Party was useless. From 1829 to 1845, he served as President of Harvard, endorsed Republican John C. Fremont for President in 1856, and died in 1864.