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"William Eustis was a physician, born in Cambridge Massachusetts on June 10, 1753,
and died in Boston on February 6, 1825.
Eustis graduated from Harvard in 1772, and studied medicine under
Dr. Joseph Warren. As
a surgeon he served throughout the Revolutionary War, and was a member of
the Massachusetts Legislature from 1788 to 1794.
He was in the governor's council two years, and a member of in Congress from 1800 to
1805, and from 1820 to 1823. Eustis was Secretary of War from 1809 to 1812,
and then
resigned, for there was much fault found with his administration.
In 1815 he was sent as minister to Holland, and was Governor of
Massachusetts in 1824, dying while in office, February 6, 1825."
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