{{Short description|American politician}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2020}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = Peleg Tallman | honorific_suffix = | image = | alt = | state = [[Massachusetts]] | district = {{ushr|MA|16|16th}} | term_start = March 4, 1811 | term_end = March 3, 1813 | predecessor = [[Orchard Cook]] | successor = [[Samuel Davis (American politician)|Samuel Davis]] | birth_date = {{birth date|1764|7|24}} | birth_place = [[Tiverton, Rhode Island|Tiverton]], [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations|Rhode Island Colony]], [[British America]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1840|3|12|1764|7|24}} | death_place = [[Bath, Maine|Bath]], [[Maine]], U.S. | spouse = | party = [[Democratic-Republican Party|Democratic-Republican]] | relations = | children = | alma_mater = | occupation = Merchant | profession = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }}
'''Peleg Tallman''' (July 24, 1764 – March 12, 1840) was a [[United States representative]] from [[Massachusetts]]. He was born in [[Tiverton, Rhode Island|Tiverton]] in the [[Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations|Rhode Island Colony]] and attended public schools. He served in the [[American Revolution|Revolutionary War]] on the privateer Trumbull, and lost an arm in an engagement in 1780. He was captured and imprisoned by the British. After the War, he engaged in mercantile pursuits in [[Bath, Maine|Bath]] (which was a part of Massachusetts' [[District of Maine]] until 1820).
He was elected as a [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican]] to the [[12th United States Congress|Twelfth]] Congress (March 4, 1811 – March 3, 1813). He declined to be a candidate for renomination, and became an overseer of [[Bowdoin College]] 1802-1840. Tallman served as a member of the [[Maine State Senate]], and died in Bath. His interment was in Maple Grove Cemetery, and was reinterred in Forest Hills Cemetery, [[Roxbury, Massachusetts]].
==References== * {{CongBio|T000033}}
==External links== {{Portal|Biography}} *{{Find a Grave|7232628}} * [http://findingaids.hagley.org/xtf/view?docId=ead/0419.xml Tallman Family Papers] relating to the Tallman family including Peleg Tallman (1764–1840), Peleg Tallman (1836–1863), Frank G.Tallman (1860–1938) and Annie Dickie Tallman at [[Hagley Museum and Library]] {{Bioguide}}
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