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American judge (1739–1838)

Paine Wingate (May 14, 1739 – March 7, 1838) was an American preacher, farmer, and statesman from Stratham, New Hampshire.

He served New Hampshire in the Continental Congress and both the United States Senate and House of Representatives.^[2]

Early life, education, ministry, and farming

Wingate was born the sixth of twelve children, in Amesbury, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1739.^[3] His father (also Paine) was a minister there.

He graduated from Harvard College in 1759.

Wingate was ordained a minister of the Congregational Church in 1763.

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He became a pastor in Hampton Falls, New Hampshire.^[4] In 1776, Wingate gave up his ministry and moved to Stratham, where he took up farming.

Political career

Wingate was elected to several terms in the New Hampshire House of Representatives, and was a delegate to their state constitutional convention in 1781.

In 1788, he served as a deleg