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Sumner, INCREASE, jurist; born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, November 27, 1746; admitted to the bar in 1770, and began practice in his native town; was a representative in the State legislature in 1776–80, and in the State Senate in 1780–97; associate judge of the Supreme Court in 1782–97; governor of Massachusetts in 1797–99 ; and a member of the convention that adopted the national Constitution in 1789. He died in Roxbury, Mass., June 7, 1799. |
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