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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Famous quotes containing the words election and/or congress:
“Now that the election is over, may not all, having a common interest, re-unite in a common effort, to save our common country?”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)
“I date the end of the old republic and the birth of the empire to the invention, in the late thirties, of air conditioning. Before air conditioning, Washington was deserted from mid-June to September.... But after air conditioning and the Second World War arrived, more or less at the same time, Congress sits and sits while the presidents—or at least their staffs—never stop making mischief.”
—Gore Vidal (b. 1925)