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Name
  
Gideon Barstow


Role
  
U.S. representative

Resigned
  
March 3, 1823

Political party
  
Democratic-Republican, Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican

Children
  
Gideon Forrester Barstow

Died
  
March 26, 1852, St. Augustine, Florida, United States

Party
  
Democratic-Republican Party

Succeeded by
  
Benjamin Williams Crowninshield

Gideon Barstow (September 7, 1783 – March 26, 1852) was a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts. Born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, Barstow attended the common schools and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island from 1799 to 1801. He studied medicine, was admitted to practice and settled in Salem, Massachusetts. He served as member of the State constitutional convention in 1820.

Barstow was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Seventeenth Congress (March 4, 1821 – March 3, 1823), but was not a candidate for renomination in 1822. He served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate. He served as presidential elector on the Whig ticket of Clay and Sergeant in 1832. He moved to St. Augustine, Florida, because of ill health and engaged in mercantile pursuits. Barstow died in St. Augustine March 26, 1852 and was interred in Huguenot Cemetery.

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