{{Short description|American politician (1761–1834)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | image = | honorific_prefix = | name = Joshua Cushman | honorific_suffix = | caption = | office = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]] | term_start = March 4, 1819 | term_end = March 3, 1825 | predecessor = [[Joshua Gage]] | successor = [[Jeremiah O'Brien (Maine politician)|Jeremiah O'Brien]] | constituency = [[Massachusetts's 19th congressional district|Massachusetts 19th]]<br>(1819–1821)<br>[[Maine's 6th congressional district|Maine 6th]] (1821–1823)<br>[[Maine's 4th congressional district|Maine 4th]] (1823–1825) | order3 = Member of the<br>[[Massachusetts State Senate]] | district3 = | term_start3 = 1832 | term_end3 = 1834 | preceded3 = | succeeded3 = | office5 = Member of the<br>[[Maine House of Representatives]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Cushman |first=Henry Wyles| title = A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman The Puritan From the Year 1617 to 1855 | page = 186 | publisher = Little Brown, and Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1855}}</ref> | term_start5 = January 1, 1834 | term_end5 = January 27, 1834 | preceded5 = | succeeded5 = | birth_date = {{birth date|1761|4|11}} | birth_place = [[Halifax, Massachusetts|Halifax]], [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1834|1|27|1761|4|11}} | death_place = [[Augusta, Maine|Augusta]], [[Maine]], U.S. | resting_place = | spouse = Lucy Jones<ref>{{Citation |last=Cushman |first=Henry Wyles| title = A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman The Puritan From the Year 1617 to 1855 | page = 185 | publisher = Little Brown, and Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1855}}</ref> | children = Charles Cushmam<ref>{{Citation |last=Cushman |first=Henry Wyles| title = A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of The Cushmans: the Descendants of Robert Cushman The Puritan From the Year 1617 to 1855 | page = 185 | publisher = Little Brown, and Company | location = Boston, MA | year = 1855}}</ref> | family = | party = [[Democratic-Republican]], [[National Republican Party (United States)|Adams-Clay Republican]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard College]] | occupation = | profession = Minister | signature = | website = | footnotes = | allegiance = {{flag|United States|1777}} | branch = [[Continental Army]] | service_years = April 1, 1777 - March 1780 | rank = | commands = | battles = [[American Revolutionary War]] | awards = }} '''Joshua Cushman''' (April 11, 1761 – January 27, 1834) was a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]] and from [[Maine]]. Born in [[Halifax, Massachusetts|Halifax]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]], Cushman served in the [[Continental Army]] from April 1, 1777, until March 1780. He was graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1787, studied [[theology]], was ordained to the ministry and licensed to preach. He was pastor of the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]] in [[Winslow, Maine]] for nearly twenty years. He served in the [[Massachusetts State Senate]], and served as member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]].
Cushman was elected as [[Democratic-Republican]] from Massachusetts to the [[16th United States Congress|Sixteenth]] Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). When the State of Maine was admitted into the Union, he was also elected as a Democratic-Republican member to the [[17th United States Congress|Seventeenth]] Congress, and reelected as an [[National Republican Party (United States)|Adams-Clay Republican]] to the [[18th United States Congress|Eighteenth]] Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1825). He died in [[Augusta, Maine]] on January 27, 1834. He was interred in a tomb on the State grounds in Augusta.
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