Election To Congress
Wheaton was elected as a Federalist to the Eleventh and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1809-March 3, 1817).
In 1834 Wheaton established the Wheaton Female Seminary (now Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts, as a memorial to his recently-deceased daughter.
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