Nathaniel Prentiss Banks
U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1853-1857
Governor, Massachusetts, 1858-1861
Major General, USA, 1861-1865
U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1865-1873; 1875-1879; 1889-1891
Born: January 30, 1816, Waltham, Massachusetts
Died: September 1, 1894, Waltham, Massachusetts
- Little formal education
- Member & Speaker, Massachusetts House of Representatives
- U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1853-1857
- Speaker, U. S. House of Representatives, 1856-1857
- Governor, Massachusetts, 1858-1861
- Appointed Major General, USA, Volunteers, January 1861, by President Abraham Lincoln
- U. S. House of Representatives, Massachusetts, 1865-1873; 1875-1879; 1889-1891
Buried: Grove Hill Cemetery, Waltham, Massachusetts
See also the Union Soldier Personnel Section
(Source: U.S. Congress. House. Biographical Directory Of The American Congress 1774-1949, 85th Cong., 2nd sess., H. Doc. 607 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), pp. 759-2057.)