# Aaron Matson

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'''Aaron Matson''' (1770 – July 18, 1855) was a [United States representative](/source/United_States_representative) from [New Hampshire](/source/New_Hampshire).  He was born in [Plymouth, Massachusetts](/source/Plymouth%2C_Massachusetts). He moved to [Cheshire County, New Hampshire](/source/Cheshire_County%2C_New_Hampshire), where he was the county judge of probate.

Matson was a member of the [New Hampshire House of Representatives](/source/New_Hampshire_House_of_Representatives) 1806–1808, 1810–1814, 1817, and 1818, and a member of the [Executive Council](/source/Executive_Council_of_New_Hampshire) 1819–1821. He was elected as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican) to the [Seventeenth Congress](/source/Seventeenth_Congress) and reelected as an [Adams-Clay Republican](/source/Adams-Clay_Republican) to the [Eighteenth Congress](/source/18th_United_States_Congress) (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825).<ref>{{cite web |title=H. Rept. 17-22 - Report of the Committee of Elections. January 21, 1822. Ordered to lie on the table |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/SERIALSET-00070_00_00-023-0022-0000 |website=GovInfo.gov |publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office |access-date=24 June 2023 |page=1}}</ref> After leaving Congress, he was again a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1827 and 1828. He died in [Newport, Vermont](/source/Newport_(city)%2C_Vermont) in 1855.

His granddaughter Ann Matson was the first wife of the [New Hampshire](/source/New_Hampshire) lawyer and congressman [Edmund Burke](/source/Edmund_Burke_(congressman)).<ref>{{cite book|last=Metcalf|first=Henry Harrison and McClintock, John Norris|title=The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine Devoted to History, Biography, Literature, and State Progress, Volume 3|year=1880|publisher=H.H. Metcalf|page=204|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Rc8AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA198 }}</ref>

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