# Job Durfee

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{{Short description|American judge (1790–1847)}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Job Durfee
|image = 
|state1 = [Rhode Island](/source/Rhode_Island)
|district1  = [at-large](/source/Rhode_Island's_At-large_congressional_district)
|term_start1 = March 4, 1821
|term_end1 = March 3, 1825
|preceded1 = [Nathaniel Hazard](/source/Nathaniel_Hazard)
|succeeded1 = [Dutee Jerauld Pearce](/source/Dutee_Jerauld_Pearce)
|order2 = 36th
|office2 = Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
|term_start2 = March 4, 1835
|term_end2 = March 3, 1847
|predecessor2 = [Samuel Eddy](/source/Samuel_Eddy)
|successor2 = Richard W. Green
|birth_date = September 20, 1790
|birth_place = [Tiverton](/source/Tiverton%2C_Rhode_Island), [Rhode Island](/source/Rhode_Island)
|death_date = July 26, 1847 (aged 57)
|death_place = [Tiverton](/source/Tiverton%2C_Rhode_Island), [Rhode Island](/source/Rhode_Island)
|resting_place = 
|occupation = Lawyer, congressman, chief justice
|alma_mater=[Brown University](/source/Brown_University), 1813
|party = [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican), [Adams-Clay Republican](/source/National_Republican_Party_(United_States))
}}

'''Job Durfee''' (September 20, 1790 – July 26, 1847) was a politician and [jurist](/source/jurist) from [Rhode Island](/source/Rhode_Island). Born at [Tiverton](/source/Tiverton%2C_Rhode_Island), he graduated from [Brown University](/source/Brown_University) in 1813 and was admitted to the [bar](/source/Bar_(law)) and commenced practice in Tiverton. He was a member of the [Rhode Island House of Representatives](/source/Rhode_Island_House_of_Representatives) from 1816 to 1820, and was elected as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican) to the Seventeenth Congress and was reelected as an [Adams-Clay Republican](/source/Adams-Clay_Republican) to the Eighteenth Congress, serving from March 4, 1821, to March 3, 1825. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1824 to the Nineteenth Congress and for election in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; he was again a member of the State house of representatives from 1826 to 1829, serving as [speaker](/source/speaker_(politics)) from 1827 to 1829. He declined to be a candidate for reelection and resumed the practice of law; in May 1833 he was elected [associate justice](/source/associate_justice) of the [Rhode Island Supreme Court](/source/Rhode_Island_Supreme_Court).<ref name="Manual">''[https://books.google.com/books?id=3C4tAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA208 Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations]'' (1891), p. 208-13.</ref> He was [chief justice](/source/chief_justice) from June 1835 until his death in Tiverton in 1847.<ref name="Manual"/> As chief justice, he presided over the trial of the last person executed in Rhode Island, [John Gordon](/source/John_Gordon_(convict)). Durfee's interment was in the family burying ground at Quaker Neck, near Tiverton.

Durfee was the author of ''What Cheer'', a poem in nine [canto](/source/canto)s; of an [oration](/source/oration), ''The Influences of Scientific Discovery and Invention on Social and Political Progress, or [Roger Williams](/source/Roger_Williams) in Exile'' (1843), under the [pseudonym](/source/pseudonym) "Theaptes;" and of a philosophical work, entitled ''The Panidea'' (1846).

==References==
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* ''Complete Works of Job Durfee, with a Memoir of his Life'' (Providence, 1849), edited by his son
* Gibson, ''Discourse on the Character and Writings of Chief Justice Durfee'' (Providence, 1848)
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{{US House succession box
| state=Rhode Island
| district=AL
| before= [Nathaniel Hazard](/source/Nathaniel_Hazard)
| after= [Dutee J. Pearce](/source/Dutee_Jerauld_Pearce)
| years=1821–1825
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Category:People from Tiverton, Rhode Island
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Category:1847 deaths
Category:Brown University alumni
Category:Members of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Category:Chief justices of the Rhode Island Supreme Court
Category:Speakers of the Rhode Island House of Representatives
Category:Democratic-Republican Party United States representatives from Rhode Island
Category:19th-century American poets
Category:American male poets
Category:19th-century American male writers
Category:19th-century Rhode Island state court judges
Category:19th-century United States representatives
Category:19th-century members of the Rhode Island General Assembly

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