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Publications - Descriptions of Portraits at New Hampshire State Library
 
Compiled by Russell Bastedo
NH State Curator

George Washington KittredgeGeorge Washington Kittredge (1805 - 1880/1)
Born at Epping (NH); died at Newmarket (NH).
Medical doctor and state and national legislator.
Portrait by U.D. Tenney, 1870.

George W. Kittredge prepared for university at Phillips Exeter (NH) Academy and entered medical studies at Harvard College. He graduated in 1825 and practiced at Newmarket (NH) for more than fifty years (1825 - 1878/9).

Dr. Kittredge represented Newmarket in the State Legislature (1835, 1847/8, 1852). In 1852 he was Speaker of the House. He was also a (Democrat) U.S. Representative in the 52nd Congress (1853/5), and an unsuccessful candidate for Congress in the 1854 and 1856 elections.

Dr. Kittredge was a director of the Boston & Maine Railroad Company for twenty years (1836 - 1856), and president of the Newmarket Savings Bank for forty years. He never married.

References: D. H. Hurd, ed., History of Rockingham and Strafford Counties....(1882); Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 - 1989 (1989).

 
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