Increase Sumner (November 27, 1746 – June 7, 1799) was an American politician from Massachusetts. He served as the fifth governor of Massachusetts, serving from 1797 to 1799. Trained as a lawyer, he served in the provisional government of Massachusetts during the American Revolutionary War, and was elected to the Confederation Congress in 1782. Appointed to the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court the same year, he served in that post until 1797.
He was three times elected governor of Massachusetts, but died not long after the start of his third term. His descendants include his son William H. Sumner, for whom the Sumner Tunnel in Boston, Massachusetts is named.
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“through the Sumner Tunnel,
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tile by tile like a men’s urinal,
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