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John A. Peters (1822–1904)

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Peters' first wife, Mary Ann Hathaway, was the daughter of his law partner, Joshua W. Hathaway, who became judge of the Bangor District Court in 1849. His second wife was Fannie E. Roberts, daughter of Bangor "lumber baron" Amos M. Roberts. His brother-in-law,
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to the Fortieth, Forty-first, and Forty-second U.S. Congresses (March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1873), but declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1872. He then served as justice of the
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While serving in the U.S. Congress, Peters was Chairman of the Committee on the Congressional Library (the
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of Bangor, was a Civil War general and post-war Democratic Party candidate for Governor of Maine.
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Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Maine
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Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court
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in 1864. He was Attorney General of Maine 1864–1866.
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The New England Historical and Genealogical Register
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U.S. Congressman
Maine
John Andrew Peters
Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Ellsworth, Maine
Gorham Academy
Yale College
Skull and Bones
Harvard Law School
Bangor, Maine
Maine Senate
Maine House of Representatives
Republican
Maine Supreme Judicial Court
Andrew Peters Wiswell
Library of Congress
Charles W. Roberts
Bangor, Maine
Mount Hope Cemetery
"Memoirs of the New-England Historic Genealogical Society: 1904"
The New England Historical and Genealogical Register




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