Josiah Bartlett Jr.

Bartlett was born to Josiah Bartlett and Mary Bartlett in Kingston in the Province of New Hampshire.{{cite web|url=http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=millerm&id=I02372|title=Quaker, New England, and Kersey Genealogy|publisher= Ancestry.com |accessdate= January 19, 2014}} He followed his father as both a physician and political leader. After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy in 1784,{{cite book|last=Phillips Exeter Academy|title=General Catalogue of Officers and Students, 1783-1903|year=1903|publisher=Phillips Exeter Academy|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6UZAAAAAIAAJ/page/n14 2]|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_6UZAAAAAIAAJ }} he studied medicine and started a medical practice in Stratham.{{cite book|last=Farmer|first=John and Lyon, G. Parker|title=The New-Hampshire Annual Register, and United States Calendar, Issue 21|year=1842|page=93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IIYBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA93 }}

Bartlett was a presidential elector in the 1792 election, supporting George Washington.{{cite book|last=U.S. Government Printing Office|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|year=1913|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=462|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9K8qAAAAYAAJ&q=josiah+bartlett+jr+nh+State+Senate&pg=PA462}} He served in the State Senate from 1809 to 1810. Elected as a Democratic-Republican candidate, he served as a United States Representative for the state of New Hampshire from March 4, 1811, to March 3, 1813.{{cite book|last=Drake|first=Francis Samuel|title=Dictionary of American Biography, Including Men of the Time: Containing Nearly Ten Thousand Notices of Persons of Both Sexes, of Native and Foreign Birth, who Have Been Remarkable, Or Prominently Connected with the Arts, Sciences, Literature, Politics, Or History of the American Continent. Giving Also the Pronunciation of Many of the Foreign and Peculiar American Names, a Key to the Assumed Names of Writers, and a Supplement|year=1879|publisher=J. R. Osgood and Company|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryameri02drakgoog/page/n716 69]|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryameri02drakgoog|quote=josiah bartlett jr .}} He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1811.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=August 7, 2014}} Following his Congressional service, Bartlett resumed the practice of medicine and was elected again to the New Hampshire State Senate, serving from 1824 to 1825. He served as a presidential elector in the 1824 election, supporting John Quincy Adams.{{cite book|last=U.S. Government Printing Office|title=United States Congressional Serial Set|year=1913|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|page=462|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9K8qAAAAYAAJ&q=josiah+bartlett+jr+nh+State+Senate&pg=PA462}} He continued the practice of medicine in Stratham.

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Bartlett died in Stratham, Rockingham County, New Hampshire, on April 16, 1838 (age {{age in years and days|1768|8|29|1838|4|16}}). He is interred at Old Congregational Cemetery in Stratham.{{cite book|last=Spencer|first=Thomas E.|title=Where They're Buried: A Directory Containing More Than Twenty Thousand Names of Notable Persons Buried in American Cemeteries, with Listings of Many Prominent People who Were Cremated|year=1998|publisher=Genealogical Publishing Com|page=221|isbn=9780806348230|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eLWao2lIGTEC&pg=PA221 }}

Bartlett was the son of Josiah Bartlett, Governor of the state of New Hampshire and signer of the Declaration of Independence.{{cite web|title=Josiah Bartlet Jr.|date=August 29, 1768 |url=http://www.geni.com/people/Josiah-Bartlett-US-Congress/6000000003166714898|publisher=2014 Geni.com|accessdate=January 17, 2014}}{{cite web|url= http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000206|title=BARTLETT, Josiah, (1729 - 1795)|publisher= Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|accessdate= January 19, 2014}}

He married Sarah Ann Wingate on June 3, 1792, and later married Hannah Weeks on April 25, 1812.{{cite web|title=Josiah Bartlett Jr.|url=http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/a/l/b/Ruth-B-Albert/GENE2-0001.html|publisher=2009 Ancestry.com|accessdate=January 17, 2014}}

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• {{Biographical Directory of Congress|B000207}}
• [http://lcweb2.loc.gov/service/mss/eadxmlmss/eadpdfmss/2003/ms003056.pdf Josiah Bartlett Family Papers]
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