Edward Dowse

{{Short description|American politician (1756–1828)}} {{for|the 17th-century English politician|Edward Dowse (MP)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | name =Edward Dowse | image_size =250px | caption = | state =[[Massachusetts]] | district =[[Massachusetts's 13th congressional district|13th]] | term_start =March 4, 1819 | term_end =May 26, 1820 | preceded =[[Nathaniel Ruggles]] | succeeded =[[William Eustis]] | birth_date ={{birth date|1756|10|22}} | birth_place =[[Charlestown, Massachusetts|Charlestown]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] | death_date ={{death date and age|1828|9|3|1756|10|22}} | death_place =[[Dedham, Massachusetts|Dedham]], [[Massachusetts]], U.S. | party =[[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | signature = | website = | footnotes = }} [[File:Fire bucket, leather - Dedham Historical Society - Dedham Massachusetts - DSC04234.jpg|thumb|Dowse's leather fire bucket]] '''Edward Dowse''' (October 22, 1756 – September 3, 1828) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]]. Born in [[Charlestown, Massachusetts|Charlestown]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], Dowse moved to [[Dedham, Massachusetts|Dedham]] in March 1798 to escape the [[yellow fever]] epidemic in Boston.<ref name=register/>{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=201}} He purchased five acres of land on both sides of the Middle Post Road, today known as High Street.<ref name=register/>{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=201}} He lived in an already existing house at first, and then built a home on the land in 1804.{{efn|The house he built was "the large, yellow house adjoining the Dedham Medical Associates Building" in 1976.{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=201}}}} His brother-in-law was [[Samuel Nicholson]], the first captain of {{USS|Constitution}}.<ref name=register/>

Dowse once wrote to Thomas Jefferson that his predecessor in Congress, fellow Dedhamite [[Fisher Ames]], "is a man of the most irritable and furious temper in the world." This is the only known instance of someone claiming Ames had a temper.{{sfn|Knudsen|2025|p=426}}

During his 1817 [[Presidency of James Monroe#Democratic-Republican Party dominance|tour of the country]], President [[James Monroe]] visited Dedham and [[History of Dedham, Massachusetts, 1800–1899#Other 3|stayed in Dowse's home]].{{sfn|Hanson|1976|p=201}}

After the [[American Revolution|Revolution]], he became a shipmaster and engaged in the East Indian and China carrying trade. Dowse was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican]] to the [[16th United States Congress|Sixteenth]] Congress and served from March 4, 1819, until May 26, 1820, when he resigned. He also served as a representative to the [[Great and General Court]] in 1821.<ref name=worthington/> He died in Dedham on September 3, 1828. He is interred in the [[Old Village Cemetery]].{{sfn|Smith|1936|p=146}}

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<ref name=register>{{cite journal | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wYM2YTLOyeQC&pg=PA1 | title=The Frigate Constitution and the Avery Oak | author=Worthington, Erastus | journal=The Dedham Historical Register | date = January 1898| volume=IX | issue=1 | pages=1–5}}</ref>

<ref name=worthington>{{cite book|last=Worthington|first=Erastus |title=The History of Dedham: From the Beginning of Its Settlement, in September 1635, to May 1827|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v2sWAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA65|access-date=August 14, 2019|year=1827|publisher=Dutton and Wentworth|pages=106–107}} </ref>

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==Works cited== *{{cite book|last=Hanson|first=Robert Brand |title=Dedham, Massachusetts, 1635-1890|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oslAQAAMAAJ|year=1976|publisher=Dedham Historical Society}} *{{cite book|last=Knudsen|first=Harold M. |title=Fisher Ames, Christian Founding Father & Federalist |year = 2025 | publisher = Liberty Hill Publishing}} *{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Frank |title=A History of Dedham, Massachusetts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O8EMAAAAYAAJ|access-date=July 18, 2019|year=1936|publisher=Transcript Press, Incorporated}}

{{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{succession box |title=[[United States House of Representatives, Massachusetts District 13|Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts district 13]] |before=[[Nathaniel Ruggles]] |after=[[William Eustis]] |years=March 4, 1819 – May 26, 1820}} {{s-end}}

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