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ROBERT TREAT PAINE

Robert Treat Paine was an American jurist and politician. He was born in 1731 and died in 1814. He was a member of the Massachusetts Assembly from 1773 to 1774, and of the Provincial Congress from 1774 to 1775. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1778 and signed the American Declaration of Independence. He was Attorney-General of Massachusetts from 1780 to 1790, and a Judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court from 1790 to 1804, when he resigned. He was renowned as an able lawyer and an impartial judge.

Robert Treat Paine was an American poet. He was born in 1773 and died in 1811).
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