Sidney Perham

Sidney Perham

Infobox Congressman
name =Sidney Perham



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state =Maine
district =2nd
term_start =March 4, 1863
term_end =March 3, 1869
preceded =T.A.D. Fessenden
succeeded =Samuel P. Morrill
order2 =33rd Governor of Maine
term_start2 =January 4, 1871
term_end2 =January 7, 1874
predecessor2 =Joshua Chamberlain
successor2 =Nelson Dingley, Jr.
birth_date =March 27, 1819
birth_place =Woodstock, Maine
death_date =April 10, 1907
death_place =Washington, D.C.
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party =Republican
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Sidney Perham (March 27, 1819ndash April 10, 1907) was a U.S. Representative and Governor of Maine and was an activist in the temperance movement.

Born in Woodstock, Maine to Joel and Sophronia Bisbee Perham, Perham attended common schools as a child and later engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was elected a member of the Maine Board of Agriculture in 1853, was a member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1854, serving as Speaker of the House that one year, and was clerk of the courts of Oxford County, Maine from 1859 to 1863. He was elected a Republican to the United States House of Representatives in 1862, serving from 1863 to 1869, not being a candidate for renomination in 1868. There, Perham served as chairman of the Committee on Invalid Pensions from 1865 to 1869. He served as president of the board of trustees of Westbrook Seminary in Deering, Maine from 1865 to 1880, was elected Governor of Maine in 1870, serving from 1871 to 1874 was president of the board of trustees of Maine Industrial School in Hallowell, Maine from 1873 to 1898 and was Secretary of State of Maine in 1875. Perham served as appraiser in the customhouse in Portland, Maine from 1877 to 1885 and was a member of the board of trustees of the Universalist General Convention for twenty-seven years, serving as it's president for sometime. He died in Washington, D.C. on April 10, 1907 and was interned in Lakeside Cemetery in Bryant Pond, Maine.

References and external links

* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=7228869 Sidney Perham] at Find A Grave
* [http://history.rays-place.com/governors/me/perham-s.htm Biography of Sidney Perham]


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