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James Trecothick Austin
James Trecothick Austin
22nd Massachusetts; Attorney General
	In office; 1832–1843
Governor	Levi Lincoln Jr.; John Davis; Samuel Turell Armstrong; Edward Everett; Marcus Morton
Preceded by	Perez Morton
Succeeded by	John H. Clifford; (From 1849; Office Abolished from 1843–1849)
Suffolk County, Massachusetts; Attorney
	In office; 1812–1832
Preceded by	Position created
Succeeded by	Samuel D. Parker
Personal details
Born	January 7, 1784; Boston, Massachusetts
Died	May 8, 1870 (aged 86); Boston, Massachusetts
Political party	Anti-Federalist, National Republican Party
Spouse	Catharine Gerry
Children	Ivers James Austin, born February 14, 1808, d June 11, 1889; Marie Cornelia Ritchie Austin, b. March 8, 1821, d, December 6, 1864.
Profession	Attorney

James Trecothick Austin (January 7, 1784 – May 8, 1870) was the 22nd Massachusetts Attorney General.^[1] Austin was the son of Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth, and Treasurer and Receiver-General of Massachusetts Jonathan L. Austin.^[1] He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1824.^[7] He graduated from Harvard College in 1802.^[8]

In 1837, he spoke at Faneuil Hall in praise of anti-abolitionists who had killed Elijah P. Lovejoy. He compared the mob to American patriots rising against the British and declared that Lovejoy "died as the fool dieth!"^[9]^[a]

Family

Austin married Catharine Gerry,^[6] the eldest daughter^[6] of Elbridge Gerry,^[5] they had a son, Ivers James Austin, born February 14, 1808,^[6] and a daughter, Marie Cornelia Ritchie Austin, born on March 8, 1821.^[5]

Notes

^ The phrase is a reference to 2 Samuel 3:33, "And the king lamented over Abner, and said, 'Died Abner as a fool dieth?'"

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k Wilson, James Grant (1888), "Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. I., Aaron-Crandall", D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, New York, N.Y., p. 120
^ Larned, Josephus Nelson (1902), "The Literature of American History: a Bibliographical guide", Houghton, Mifflin & CO., Boston, Ma, p. 157
^ Massachusetts Historical Society (1907), "Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society Second Series, Vol. XX", Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts, p. 499
^ White, James Terry White, "The National cyclopaedia of American biography: being the history of the United States as Illustrated in the lives of the Founders, Builders, and Defenders of the Republic, and of the men and women who are Doing the Work and Moulding the thought of the Present Time, Volume XXII", James T. White & Company, New York, N.Y., p. 209
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Dwight, Benjamin Woodbridge (1871), "The History of the Descendants of Elder John Strong, of Northampton, Mass., Volume II.", Joel Munsell, Albany, N.Y., p. 1206
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Linzee, John William (1917), "The Linzee Family of Great Britain and the United States of America and The Allied Families, Volume II.", John William Linzee, Boston, Massachusetts, p. 768
^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved April 27, 2011.
^ "Founders Online: James T. Austin to Thomas Jefferson, 12 July 1811".
^ Darling, Arthur (1924). Political Changes in Massachusetts, 1824–48. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. p. 248.