(1784-1866) a U.S. Representative was born in York on December 19, 1784. He attended the common schools, was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1809, studied law, was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Parsonsfield in 1812.

McIntire served in the War of 1812, recruiting a company that marched to the northern frontier.  A member of the Maine House of Representatives in 1820, he also served as prosecuting attorney of York County (1820-1843), and as a member of the boundary commission in 1820 to settle the northern and northeastern boundaries of Maine.

Elected to the Twentieth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of William Burleigh, he was reelected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-first, Twenty-second, and Twenty-third Congresses and served from September 10, 1827, to March 3, 1835.

McIntire was State Land Agent in 1839 and 1840 and was appointed by President Polk United States Marshal for Maine in 1845. He also served as surveyor of customs of the port of Portland from April 13, 1853, to April 1, 1857. He died in Parsonsfield April 28, 1866, with interment in Middle road Cemetery.

Additional resources

Rufus McIntire Congressional Biography: https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=M000479  (accessed December 31, 2020)

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