Caleb Ellis

Ellis was born in Walpole in the Province of Massachusetts Bay. After graduating from Harvard University in 1793, he worked as a school teacher in Dedham, Massachusetts. He later studied law and was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar Association. He then moved to Newport, New Hampshire, and eventually to Claremont, New Hampshire.{{cite book|last1=Herringshaw|first1=Thomas William|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Xxg7AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA337|title=Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century: Accurate and Succinct Biographies of Famous Men and Women in All Walks of Life who are Or Have Been the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States Since Its Formation|year=1904|publisher=American Publishers' Association, 1904 - Biography|page=337|accessdate=July 22, 2014}}

Ellis was a member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives in 1803.

Elected as a Federalist to the Ninth Congress, Ellis was United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1807.{{cite book|last1=Congressional Quarterly, inc|title=American Political Leaders 1789-2009|date=September 22, 2009|publisher=CQ Press, October 6, 2009 - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY|isbn=9781452267265|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ktR1AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128 |accessdate=July 22, 2014}} After service in Congress, he was member of the New Hampshire Governor's council in 1809 and 1810. In addition, he served in the New Hampshire Senate in 1811. He was a presidential elector on the Clinton and Ingersoll ticket in 1812.

Appointed Justice of the Superior Court of New Hampshire in 1813, Ellis held the office until his death.{{cite book|title=The New Hampshire Register and Farmer's Almanac|year=1826|publisher=Claremont Manufacturing Company, 1826 - Almanacs, American|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JfkWAAAAYAAJ/page/n38 36]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_JfkWAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=July 22, 2014}}

Ellis was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1815.[http://www.americanantiquarian.org/memberliste American Antiquarian Society Members Directory]

Ellis died in Claremont, New Hampshire, on May 6, 1816, at the age of 49. He is interred at the Broad Street Cemetery in Claremont, New Hampshire.

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Category:Harvard University alumni

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Category:People from Walpole, Massachusetts

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Category:Justices of the New Hampshire Supreme Court

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Category:19th-century members of the New Hampshire General Court