William S. Damrell
William Shapleigh Damrell was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts.
Career
Damrell was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire on November 29, 1809. He attended public schools, learned the art of printing and became the proprietor of a large printing establishment in Boston. He published books, almanacs, and government publications of all types, but was primarily known for printing books, broadsides and pamphlets for temperance and other reform organizations. He also became the city's main supplier of stationery and office supplies.In December 1845, Damrell was the unsuccessful Native American Party nominee for mayor of Boston.
Damrell was active in the Free Soil Party. In 1854 he was elected to the Thirty-fourth Congress as a Free Soiler with American Party support. He was reelected as a Republican to the Thirty-fifth Congress.
Damrell suffered a paralytic stroke before the expiration of his second term, and was not a candidate for renomination in 1858. He resumed his printing business activities.
Death and burial
He died in Dedham on May 17, 1860. His interment was at Forest Hills Cemetery in the Jamaica Plain neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.In 1892 his former estate was purchased and converted into the Fairview Cemetery.