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William Eustis
b.10 Jun 1753 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
d.6 Feb 1825 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
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m. 11 May 1749
  1. William Eustis1753 - 1825
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  • H.  William Eustis1753 - 1825
  • W.  Caroline Langdon (add)
m. 26 Sep 1810
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Name[2] William Eustis
Gender Male
Birth[1] 10 Jun 1753 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Marriage 26 Sep 1810 Portsmouth, Rockingham, New Hampshire, United Statesto Caroline Langdon (add)
Death[2][3] 6 Feb 1825 Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q661668?


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William Eustis (June 10, 1753 – February 6, 1825) was an early American physician, politician, and statesman from Massachusetts. Trained in medicine, he served as a military surgeon during the American Revolutionary War, notably at the Battle of Bunker Hill. He resumed medical practice after the war, but soon entered politics.

After several terms in the state legislature, Eustis won election to the United States Congress in 1800, serving as a moderate Democratic-Republican. He briefly returned to state politics after losing reelection in 1804, and was chosen to be Secretary of War in 1809 by President James Madison. Due in part to his inexperience at managing the army and a lack of preparedness, the military failures in the early months of the War of 1812 were laid on his shoulders, leading to his resignation.

Madison then appointed Eustis Minister to the Netherlands, a post he held from 1814 until 1818. After another period in Congress, he was elected Governor of Massachusetts in 1822. A popular successor to long-serving John Brooks, Eustis died in office in 1825. His Boston mansion, built in the 1750s by royal governor William Shirley, is known as the Shirley-Eustis House and is a National Historic Landmark.

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  1. ↑ Record Commissioners of Boston. Boston Births from A.D. 1700 to A.D. 1800: Twenty-fourth report of the Commission. (Boston: Rockwell and Churchill, 1894)
    p. 281.

    1753.
    William Son of Benjamin Eustis and Elizabeth his Wife, [Born] 10 June 1753.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Eustis, Henry Lawrence. Genealogy of the Eustis Family. (Boston, Mass.: David Clapp & Son, 1878)
    p. 9.

    William Eustis [#9], s/o Benjamin Eustis and Elizabeth Hill, b. 10 Jun 1753, d. 6 Feb 1825, m. 24 Sep 1810 Caroline Langdon. Graduated Harvard 1772, studied under Dr. Joseph Warren, surgeon during Revolutionary War, member of General Court, member of Congress Secretary of War under Madison, minister to Holland, Governor of Massachusetts.

  3. ↑ Find A Grave: Old Burying Ground, Lexington, Mass., in Find A Grave
    William Eustis.
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