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Otis, Harrison Gray

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Otis, Harrison Gray (1765–1848)

US representative and senator. He served in the US House of Representatives (Fed., Massachusetts; 1797–1801) and then in the US Senate (Federalist, later Whig; 1817–22). During the furore caused by the Embargo Act of 1807, he became the leader of the states' rights movement in Boston and he was the most prominent member of the Hartford Convention (1814). In the Senate debate over the Missouri Compromise, he opposed the extension of slavery, but he was not an active abolitionist. He was mayor of Boston (1829–31).

Otis was born in Boston, Massachusetts. A prominent Boston lawyer, he made a fortune in land speculation before becoming a representative.



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