Martin Kinsley

Martin Kinsley was a United States [House of Representatives|U.S. representative] from Massachusetts. Born in Bridgewater in the Province of [Massachusetts Bay], Kinsley graduated from Harvard College in 1778. He studied medicine. He became a purveyor of supplies in the Revolutionary Army.
He served as Treasurer of the Town of Hardwick. He moved to Hampden, and was a representative of that town in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the U.S. House in 1801 and 1802. He served as member of the executive council in 1810 and 1811, as a judge of the court of common pleas in 1811, as judge of the probate court, and served in the Massachusetts State Senate.
Kinsley was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 16th [United States Congress|Sixteenth] Congress. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress. He died in Roxbury, June 20, 1835.