Theodore Sedgwick (9 May 1746 – 24 January 1813) was a member of the US House of Representatives from Massachusetts' 4th district from 4 March 1789 to 3 March 1793, from the 2nd district from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795 (succeeding Benjamin Goodhue and preceding William Lyman), and from the 1st district from 4 March 1795 to June 1796 (preceding Thomson J. Skinner) and from 4 March 1799 to 3 March 1801 (succeeding Skinner and preceding John Bacon). He was also a US Senator from 11 June 1796 to 3 March 1799, succeeding Caleb Strong and preceding Samuel Dexter. He was a member of the Federalist Party.
Biography[]
Theodore Sedgwick was born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1746, and he became a lawyer in 1766 and commenced practice in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. During the American Revolutionary War, he served in the Continental Army as a major, fighting at the Battle of Quebec and the Battle of White Plains. In 1780, he became a delegate to the Continental Congress, and he later served in the State House and State Senate. Sedgwick served in the US House of Representatives from 1789 to 1796 and from 1799 to 1801, as well as in the US Senate from 1796 to 1799, serving as a member of the Federalist Party. He died in Boston in 1813.