Shearjashub Bourne

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'''Shearjashub Bourne''' (June 14, 1746 – March 11, 1806) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from [[Massachusetts]] who served in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] and [[United States House of Representatives]].<ref name="bio1">{{cite web|title=BOURNE, Shearjashub - Biographical Information|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000671|website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>

Bourne was born in [[Barnstable, Massachusetts|Barnstable]] in the [[Province of Massachusetts Bay]] on June 14, 1746, the son of Timothy and Elizabeth Bourne.<ref name=dict>{{cite book|last1=Congress|first1=United States|title=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774-2005: The Continental Congress|year=2005|publisher=Government Printing Office|isbn=9780160731761|page=684|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=v9MBIctdjjkC&pg=PA684|language=en}}</ref>

He graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1764, studied law and became an attorney in Barnstable. He served in local office including justice of the peace.<ref name="dict" /> Among the individuals who studied law with him and later embarked on their own legal careers was [[Lot Hall]], who served as a Justice of the [[Vermont Supreme Court]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Hall |first=Benjamin Homer |date=1858 |title=History of Eastern Vermont: From Its Earliest Settlement to the Close of the Eighteenth Century |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofeastern00hal |pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofeastern00hal/page/658 658]–666 |location=New York, NY |publisher=D. Appleton & Co. |ref={{sfnRef|''History of Eastern Vermont''}}}}</ref>

From 1782 to 1785 and 1788 to 1790 he served in the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]]. He was also a delegate to the Massachusetts convention which ratified the U.S. Constitution.<ref name="bio1" />

Bourne represented [[Massachusetts]] in the [[United States House of Representatives]] from March 4, 1791, to March 3, 1795. He later served as Chief [[Judge|Justice]] of the [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts]] Court of Common Pleas. He died in [[Boston]] on March 11, 1806.<ref name="dict" />

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==External links== *''[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-09-02-0282 Letter from Shearjashub Bourne] [[George Washington|To George Washington]]'' {{CongBio|B000671}}

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