Paine Wingate
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United States Senator from New Hampshire |
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In office March 4, 1789 – March 3, 1793 |
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| Preceded by | (none) |
| Succeeded by | Samuel Livermore |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Hampshire's At-large district (Seat 4) | |
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In office March 4, 1793 – March 3, 1795 |
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| Preceded by | (none) |
| Succeeded by | Abiel Foster |
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May 14, 1739 Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay |
| Died | March 7, 1838 (aged 98) Stratham, New Hampshire |
| Resting place | Stratham Cemetery |
| Political party | Federalist |
| Residence | Stratham |
| Alma mater | Harvard University |
| Religion | Congregationalist |
Paine Wingate (May 14, 1739 – March 7, 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire. He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.
Wingate was born the sixth of twelve children, in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1739. His father (also Paine) was a minister there. He graduated from Harvard College in 1759.
Wingate was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1763. He became a pastor in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire. In 1776, Wingate gave up his ministry and moved to Stratham, where he took up farming.
Wingate was elected to several terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and was a delegate to their state constitutional convention in 1781.
In 1788, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. Despite his own background as a preacher, Wingate successfully proposed that the salaries for the two chaplains of the Continental Congress be cut by 25% probably due at least partly to the Confederation’s untenable financial problems. Wingate was a strong advocate for ratification of the United States Constitution, writing as follows in March 1788:
[T]hose who are well-wishers to their country, and best know the situation we are in, are most sensible of the necessity of its adoption, and great pains are taken to obtain the end.
New Hampshire appointed him to the first United States Senate, in which he served from 4 March 1789 until 3 March 1793. He was then elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he served from 4 March 1793 to 3 March 1795.
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