Jeremiah O'Brien

Who was Jeremiah O'Brien?

Jeremiah O'Brien was a United States Representative from Maine. He was born in Machias, Washington County, He attended the common schools.

He then engaged in lumber manufacturing and in shipping. He was elected as member of the Maine State Senate from 1821 to 1824. He was elected as an Adams-Clay Democratic-Republican to the Eighteenth Congress, and reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth, and Twentieth Congresses. He served as chairman for the Committee on Expenditures for the United States Department of the Navy.

He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress. He member of the Maine State House of Representatives from 1832 to 1834. He resumed his former lumber manufacturing and shipping business, and died in Boston, Massachusetts May 30, 1858. His interment is in O’Brien Cemetery in Machias.