James Sullivan
BIRTH
Apr 22, 1744
Berwick, Massachusetts
DEATH
December 10, 1808
Boston, Massachusetts
Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
1807-1808
FAMILY
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Sullivan, James
(1744-1808)
James Sullivan was a Massachusetts lawyer, judge, and Patriot political leader. He served in the provincial congress during the Revolution, helped build the new state government, and later became attorney general and governor of Massachusetts.
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Richard Sullivan
(1752-1806)
John L. Sullivan
(1858-1918)
Mehitable Sullivan
(1772-1847)
George Sullivan
(?-2009)
William Sullivan
(1821-1890)
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DIED:
Boston, Massachusetts
Dec 10, 1808
James Sullivan was born on Apr 22, 1744 in Berwick, Massachusetts. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies James Sullivan with work or public activity as a lawyer, judge, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. James Sullivan died on Dec 10, 1808 in Boston, Massachusetts. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.