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The Essex Junto was a powerful group of New England Federalist Party lawyers, merchants, and politicians, so called because many in the original group were from Essex County, Massachusetts. Origins and definition
Benjamin Goodhue (September 20, 1748 [note 1] – July 28, 1814) [2] was a Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts.He supported the Patriot during the American Revolution, and was a strong member of the Federalist Party.
He was a member of the Federalist Party, specifically its Essex Junto. James Madison wrote to Thomas Jefferson in 1794 that "Ames is said to owe his success to the votes of negroes and British sailors smuggled under a very lax mode of conducting the election there." [10]
[1] [2]: 52 He was part of a group of Federalists called the Essex Junto, which included his cousin George Cabot and Theophilus Parsons. [2]: 41–42 He was the author of the Laco letters in February and March 1789. [2]: 125 He became justice of the peace in Massachusetts in 1782 and of the Quorum in 1788. [2]: 233
Some Federalist leaders (Essex Junto) began courting Jefferson's vice president and Hamilton's nemesis Aaron Burr in an attempt to swing New York into an independent confederation with the New England states, which along with New York were supposed to secede from the United States after Burr's election to Governor. However, Hamilton's influence ...
Some Federalist leaders (see Essex Junto) began courting Burr in an attempt to swing New York into an independent confederation with the New England states, which along with New York were supposed to secede from the United States after Burr's election to Governor. However, Hamilton's influence cost Burr the governorship of New York, a key in ...
Timothy Pickering (July 17, 1745 – January 29, 1829) was the third United States Secretary of State under Presidents George Washington and John Adams.He also represented Massachusetts in both houses of Congress as a member of the Federalist Party.
The 1816–17 United States House of Representatives elections were held on various dates in various states between April 30, 1816 and August 14, 1817. Each state set its own date for its elections to the House of Representatives before the first session of the 15th United States Congress convened on December 1, 1817.