Paine Wingate (14 May 1739 – 7 March 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire. He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Wingate was born in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1739. His father (also Paine) was a minister there. He graduated from Harvard College in 1759 and was ordained a minister of the Congregational Churc...
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Paine Wingate (14 May 1739 – 7 March 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire. He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Wingate was born in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1739. His father (also Paine) was a minister there. He graduated from Harvard College in 1759 and was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1763. He became a pastor in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.
In 1776 Wingate gave up his ministry and moved to Stratham, where he took up farming. He was elected to several terms in New Hampshire's state house of representatives, and was a delegate to their state constitutional convention in 1781.
In 1788, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. New Hampshire appointed him to the first United States Senate, in which he served from 4 March 1789 until 3 March 1793. He was then elected to the United States House of Representatives,...
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