{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2022}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Frederick David Ely | image = FDEly.jpg | caption = Justice Ely in [[court dress]] | birth_date = {{Birth date|1838|09|24}} | birth_place = [[Wrentham, Massachusetts]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|1921|08|06|1838|09|24}} | death_place = [[Dedham, Massachusetts]] | resting_place = [[Old Village Cemetery]] | state1 = [[Massachusetts]] | district1 = [[Massachusetts's 9th congressional district|9th]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1885 | term_end1 = March 3, 1887 | preceded1 = [[Theodore Lyman (Massachusetts)|Theodore Lyman]] | succeeded1 = [[Edward Burnett]] | office2 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]] | term2 = 1878–1879 | office3 = Member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] | term3 = 1873 | alma_mater = [[Brown University]] | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | spouse = {{Plainlist| * {{Marriage|Eliza Baldwin Whittier|December 6, 1866|February 12, 1881}} * {{Marriage|Anna Emerson|August 10, 1885}} }} | children = | signature = Signature of Frederick David Ely (1838–1921).png }} '''Frederick David Ely''' (September 24, 1838 – August 6, 1921) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]].
==Biography== Frederick D. Ely was born in [[Wrentham, Massachusetts]] on September 24, 1838.<ref name=Genealogical>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rdk4AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA156 |title=Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of Boston and Eastern Massachusetts |volume=I |editor-first=William Richard |editor-last=Cutter |publisher=[[Lewis Historical Publishing Company]] |location=New York |pages=156–157 |year=1908 |access-date=2022-07-14 |via=Google Books}}</ref>
He attended [[Day’s Academy]] and graduated from [[Brown University]] in 1859. He studied law, was admitted to the bar and commenced practice at [[Dedham, Massachusetts|Dedham]]. He was a trial justice, was elected a member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]], and served in the [[Massachusetts State Senate]]. He was also a member of the Dedham school committee.
Ely was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the Forty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1887). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1886 to the Fiftieth Congress and resumed the practice of law, and did serve as justice of the [[Boston Municipal Court|Municipal Court of Boston]] from 1888 to 1914.
He married Eliza Baldwin Whittier on December 6, 1866. She died on February 12, 1881, and he remarried to Anna Emerson on August 10, 1885.<ref name=Genealogical/>
He died at his home in Dedham on August 6, 1921, and was buried in [[Old Village Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105629587/deaths-ely/ |title=Deaths: Ely |newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]] |page=12 |date=1921-08-08 |access-date=2022-07-14 |via=Newspapers.com}}</ref>
==See also== * [[1873 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1878 Massachusetts legislature]]
==References== {{reflist}} {{CongBio|E000165}}
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