Zeno Scudder

Zeno Scudder (August 18, 1807 – June 26, 1857) was the son of Deacon Josiah[1] and Hannah Scudder. He was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts. He was born in Osterville, Massachusetts, on August 18, 1807. He had a paralysis in his right leg that made a naval career impossible. He studied medicine at Bowdoin College and then law at the Cambridge Law School. He was admitted to the bar in 1856 and conducted practice in Barnstable, Massachusetts. Scudder was a member of the Massachusetts Senate 1846–1848 and served as Senate President.

Zeno Scudder
Member of the
U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts
In office
March 4, 1851 – March 4, 1854
Preceded byJoseph Grinnell
Succeeded byThomas D. Eliot
Constituency10th district (1851–53)
1st district (1853–54)
President of the
Massachusetts State Senate[1]
In office
1848–1848
Preceded byWilliam B. Calhoun
Succeeded byJoseph Bell
Member of the
Massachusetts State Senate[2]
In office
1846–1848
Personal details
Born(1807-08-18)August 18, 1807
Barnstable, Massachusetts[2]
DiedJune 26, 1857(1857-06-26) (aged 49)[1][2]
Osterville section of Barnstable, Massachusetts[2]
Political partyWhig

Scudder was elected as a Whig to the Thirty-second and Thirty-third Congresses. His special interest while in Congress was American Fisheries. He served from March 4, 1851, until his resignation on March 4, 1854.

Scudder died in Barnstable, Massachusetts, on June 26, 1857, and was interred in Hillside Cemetery, Osterville.

See also

References
  1. Freeman, Frederick (1862), History of Cape Cod: The Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, Vol, II., Boston, MA: Frederick Freeman, p. 337
  2. Swift, Charles Francis (1897), Cape Cod, the right arm of Massachusetts: An Historical Narrative, Yarmouth, MA: Register Publishing Company, p. 269


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