Facts:   - party: democratic-republican    - predecessor: james sullivan      - succeeded: ezekiel bacon    - birth date: august 23 , 1763    - profession: attorney    - caption: portrait by john brewster , jr. .    - death date: 27 july 1833    - office: member of the    - district: 12th    - term end: march 3 , 1807 august , 1810    - name: barnabas bidwell    - death place: bath , upper canada    - birth place: township no. 1 now monterey , massachusetts    - successor: perez morton    - restingplace: cataraqui cemetery , kingston , ontario    - state: massachusetts    - nationality: american , canadian    - alma mater: yale college class of 1785 , brown university    - imagesize: 144px    - preceded: simon larned    - children: marshall spring bidwell    - term start: march 4 , 1805 september , 1791    - image: barnabasbidwellbyjohnbrewsterjr.jpg    - religion: presbyterian   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of barnabas bidwell .
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barnabas bidwell -lrb- august 23 , 1763 -- july 27 , 1833 -rrb- was an author , teacher , and politician of the late 18th and early 19th centuries , active in massachusetts and upper canada .educated at yale , he practiced law in western massachusetts and served as treasurer of berkshire county .he served in the state legislature as representative and senator , in the united states congress as spokesman for the administration of thomas jefferson where he was effective in defending administration positions and passing important legislation , and was the state attorney general from 1807 to 1810 , when exaggerated press accounts of irregularities in the berkshire county books halted his political career and prompted his flight to upper canada .bidwell later paid the $ 63.18 plus fines that he attributed to a berkshire county clerk while he was away on duties in boston .nonetheless , the controversy , exaggerated in the press by his federalist party enemies effectively scuppered his potential appointment to the u.s. supreme court .in canada he won a seat in the provincial assembly , but was denied on account that he had held office in the united states .