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 .SANGER. SANGER 535 (Flint) Blackmail. Their son, Paul Allen Sanger, was born July 15, 1S85. Mr. Sanger is a Republican in politics, and for the last ten years has taken an ac- tive interest in public affairs in the city of Cambridge. For five years he has been treasurer of the Republican city committee, and in 1887 was a member of the common council from ward 5. In 1SS8 he was a member of the House of Representatives from the 1st Middlesex district, and was returned in 1889, making for himself an excellent record. In October, 1889, he was appointed justice of the 3d eastern Middle- sex district court. CHESTER F. SANGER He is a man of originality and ability, with positive convictions. In the positions of responsibility in which he has been placed thus early in his career, he has con- ducted himself to the eminent satisfaction of his constituents, and gives promise of enlarged popularity and prominence in the future. SANGER, George Partridge, son of Ralph and Charlotte (Kingman) Sanger, was born in Dover, Norfolk county, No- vember 27, 1819. He is a lineal descendant of Richard Sanger, of Hingham, in Norfolk, England, who settled in Hingham, Mass., in 1636. The American ancestors of Mr. Sanger have been distinguished for sturdy patriot- ism, refined scholarship and exemplary piety. His father and grandfather (Zede- kiah Sanger, D. D.), were clergymen of profound scholarship. George P. Sanger was fitted for college under the instruction of his father, and it the academy in Bridgewater, where he spent the summer and fall of 1833 and '34. He taught school in Dover in the winter of 1834, and in Sharon, in that of 1835; entered Harvard College in 1836 ; was graduated in the class of 1S40, and taught a private school in Portsmouth, N. H., from November, 1840, to |ulv. 1842. He was appointed proctor in Harvard College in August, 1S42, and entered the Dane law school the same year. In the spring of 1843 he was appointed tutor in Latin, holding the position until 1846, keeping up his connection with the law school during the four years. He re- ceived in course the degrees of A. M. and LL. B. from the college, and was for sev- eral years a member of the committee for examination of the undergraduates in Latin. He was admitted to the bar in Boston in the spring of 1846, and the same year became a law partner with Stephen H. Phillips, of Salem, a companion in the law school. This relation continued until Ml". Phillips removed his law office to Salem. He was then for a short time partner with a college classmate, Charles G. Davis, of Plymouth. In 1849 he became assistant to the Hon. George Lunt, attorney of the United States for the district of Massa- chusetts during the Taylor-Fillmore ad- ministration. He subsequently resumed general practice, chiefly in the admiralty. In January, 1^53, he was appointed by Governor Clifford on his military staff, and in October was made district attorney for the Suffolk district. In September, 1846, he married Elizabeth Sherburne, daughter of William Whipple Thompson, of Portsmouth, N. II. .and took up his residence in Charlestown, where he resided until 1853, when he removed to Boston. Of this union were five sons : John White, William Thompson, George Partridge, Charles Robert Sanger — all graduates of Harvard — and Henry Clif- ford Sanger (deceased in infancy). In Charlestown he was two years a member of the school board and two years member of the board of aldermen ; was first captain of the Charlestown City Guards, then one of the most noted military