Who was Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn?

Henry Alexander Scammell Dearborn (b. March 3, 1783, Exeter, New Hampshire – d. July 29, 1851, Portland, Maine) was an American lawyer, author, statesman and soldier.

He was the son of Henry Dearborn by his second wife and named for his father's friend Alexander Scammell. He attended the common schools and went to Williams College for two years and then graduated from the College of William and Mary in 1803.

He studied law, was admitted to the bar and practiced in Salem, Massachusetts and Portland, Maine (which was then a part of Massachusetts). In 1808 he oversaw the construction of Fort Preble and Fort Scammel in Portland Harbor. He replaced his father as the collector of customs in Boston from 1812-1829 and served as brigadier general commanding the Volunteers in the defenses of Boston Harbor during the War of 1812.

He was a delegate to the Massachusetts state constitutional convention in 1820. He was a member of the Massachusetts state house of representatives in 1829 and a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1830. He was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian U.S. Representative from Massachusetts 10th District to the Twenty-second Congress (1831-1833). He was defeated running for reelection in 1832.

He was president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, a member of the Society of the Cincinnati, and the author of many books. He died in Portland, Maine and is interred in Forest Hills Cemetery in Roxbury, Massachusetts.