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Adin Thayer was a member of the School Committee of Worcester
for some years. He was Senator from Worcester, I think, for
two years, in 1871 and 1872. He was appointed Collector of
Internal Revenue for the eighth district by President Lincoln
on August 26, 1862, and gave way to a successor appointed
by President Johnson, September 14, 1866. He was reappointed
by President Grant, June 22, 1872, and held the office until
January, 1877, when the eighth and tenth districts were consolidated.
He was appointed Judge of Probate by Governor Rice in the
fall of 1877, and held that office until his death. He was
Chairman of the State Committee in 1878. He gave to the public
three or four essays or speeches printed in newspapers, and
some of them in pamphlet form. They were, under one title
or another, treatises on the moral duties of citizenship
and appeals to the youth of the State to take their full and
patriotic share in its administration.
But his function in life was that of an organizer. He was
an ambitious man. But he never suffered his ambitions to
stand in the way of what he thought was the good of the Commonwealth
or of the party.
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