Christopher Gore (September 21, 1758 - March 1, 1827) was a prominent Massachusetts lawyer, Federalist politician, and diplomat. State nickname: Bay State Other U.S. States Capital Boston Largest city Boston Governor Mitt Romney (R) Official languages English Area 27,360 km² (44th)  - Land 20,317 km²  - Water 7,043 km² (25. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Gore was born in Boston in 1758, the tenth of thirteen children of Frances and John Gore, a successful merchant and artisan. He graduated from Harvard College in 1776, and served in the Continental Army as a clerk with an artillery regiment. After the war, he became a Boston lawyer and in 1785 married Rebecca Amory Payne, daughter of a wealthy merchant and maritime insurer. Today Harvard College is the undergraduate portion of Harvard University. ... The Continental Army was the unified command structure of the thirteen colonies fighting Great Britain during the American Revolutionary War. ... Alternative meanings: Boston (disambiguation) The 18th-century Old State House in Boston is surrounded by tall buildings of the 19th and 20th centuries. ...

Gore's political career began in 1788 when he was elected to represent Boston at the Philadelphia Convention to ratify the United States Constitution. He was also elected a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1788-1789, and again in 1808). A year later President George Washington appointed Gore the first United States Attorney for Massachusetts, in which post he served 1789-1796. The Philadelphia Convention - also known as the Constitutional Convention - took place in 1787 to address problems in the government of the United States of America following independence from Britain. ... Page I of the Constitution of the United States of America Page II of the United States Constitution Page III of the United States Constitution Page IV of the United States Constitution The Syng inkstand, with which the Constitution was signed The Constitution of the United States is the supreme... The Massachusetts House of Representatives is the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of Massachusetts. ... George Washington (February 22, 1732–December 14, 1799) was an American planter, political figure, and military leader. ... United States Attorneys represent the U.S. federal government in United States district court. ...

In 1796, Washington appointed Gore as a commissioner to the Jay Treaty in Britain, in which post he served 1796-1803. Gore also spent two months as chargé d'affaires in London, 1803-1804, after his friend Rufus King resigned from his post. He remained abroad until 1804. John Jay The Jay Treaty of 1795 (also known as Jays Treaty or the Treaty of London), named after U.S. Supreme Court chief justice John Jay, was a treaty between the United States and Great Britain signed on November 19, 1794 that attempted to clear up some of... Chargé daffaires (Fr. ... St. ... Rufus King (March 24, 1755–April 29, 1827) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman. ...

Soon after his return, Gore was elected to the Massachusetts Senate. He ran for Governor of the Commonwealth in 1807 and 1808 before winning a one-year term in 1809. He served as an overseer of Harvard University from 1810-1815 and later a fellow (1812-1820). In the spring of 1813 he was appointed to the U.S. Senate. He retired to his country home in Waltham, Massachusetts in 1816, where he remained until 1822 when declining health forced him to return to Boston. He died in 1827 in Waltham, and is buried in the Granary Burying Ground, Boston. The Massachusetts Senate is the upper house of the Massachusetts General Court, the bicameral state legislature of Massachusetts. ... The United States Senate is the upper house of the U.S. Congress, smaller than the United States House of Representatives. ... Waltham is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... Founded in 1660, the Granary Burying Ground on Tremont Street in Boston, Massachusetts is the citys third oldest cemetery. ...

See also

• Gore Place, his country home in Waltham, Massachusetts

Gore Place, Waltham, Massachusetts. ... Waltham is a city located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ...

References

Pinkney, Helen. Christopher Gore, Federalist of Massachusetts, 1758-1827. Waltham, Mass.: Gore Place Society, 1969.