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FRANCIS DANA

Francis Dana was an American politician. He was born in 1743 and died in 1811. A Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress in 1776, he was Congressman in 1778 and secretary to the embassy of John Adams in 1779. He was Minister to Russia from 1780 until 1783. In 1785 he was made Justice of the Supreme Court of Massachusetts, and was a delegate to the Annapolis Convention in 1786, and Chief Justice of Massachusetts from 1791 to 1806.
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