OVERVIEW:

FULL NAME:
Nathaniel Prentice Banks

BORN:
January 30, 1816,
Waltham, Massachusetts

DIED:
September 1, 1894 (age 78)
Waltham, Massachusetts

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democratic (1844–1854)
American (1854–1857)
Republican (1857–1870)
Liberal Republican (1870–1872)
Republican (1873–1891)

HIGHLIGHTS:

1849-1852:
Member of Massachusetts House of Representatives
1853:
Member of the Massachusetts State Constitutional Convention 

1853-1857:
Member,  U.S House of Representatives (Mass.)
1856-1857:
Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives
1858-1861:
Governor of Massachusetts 
1861-1865
Served in the Union Army 
1865-1873:
U.S House of Representatives (R- Mass.)
1874:
Massachusetts State Senator 
1875-1879:
U.S House of Representatives (R-Mass.)
1889-1891:
Member, U.S House of Representatives (R- Mass.)

RESOURCES:
House of Representatives
Biographical Directory of Congress
Encyclopedia Virginia
Wikipedia 

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