GORE, CnnisrornEn (1758-1829) . An Ameri can lawyer and politician, born ,in Boston, the son of a Loyalist who was banished in 1773 and restored to citizenship in 1787. He grad uated at Harvard College in 1776, studied law in the office Of Judge Lowell, and soon established himself as a successful lawyer in Boston. In 1789 Washington appointed him the first United States District Attorney for the State of Massa chusetts. He held this office until 1796, in which year he was appointed, with William Pinckney and Jonathan Trumbull, a commissioner to Eng land, under the Jay Treaty, to settle the American spoliation claims. and he remained in England eight years. In 1803-04 he was chargh d'affaires at London during the absence of Rufus King, the American Minister. He returned to America in 1804, and resumed the practice of his profes sion in Boston. He allied himself with the Federalist Party, by the leading members of which his advice was much sought. He was. in 1808, a vigorous opponent of the Embargo, and was accused by the Republicans, with Pickering and other members of the Essex Junto, of plan ning the secession of New England and New York from the Union, and erecting an independ ent confederacy under the protection of England.
In 1809 he was elected by the Federalists Gov ernor of Massachusetts. He was, however, de feated in 1810 by Elbridge Gerry. He was the unsuccessful candidate of his party again in the following year, being defeated a second time by Gerry. After several years spent in private life during a period of great political excitement, he was, in 1814, appointed to the United States Senate by Governor Strong to fill a vacancy, which appointment was confirmed by the Legis lature in the following year. In 1817 he resigned from the Senate on account of ill health, and passed the remainder of his life on his large country estate at Waltham, Mass. Consult a "Memoir," in Massachusetts Historical Society Collections, series 3, vol. iii. (Boston, 1833).