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Josiah Quincy: Puritan, Politician, And Man of Poker-Faced Justice

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The gentleman to the left with a diminishing thatch of hair and Victorian high collar is Josiah Quincy, another Harvard President resurrected for a House name.

Josiah Quincy was a Puritan in the truest Harvard sense, and mixed his education with political gamesmanship. He served at one time (the Beacon Street era) as a reform mayor of Boston, and was subsequently relegated to Washington's House of Representatives. He was a Federalist.

Quincy's 17 year (1829 through 1845) as czar of Bohemia-on-the-Charles were not significant for their pacificity. Josiah dealt his justice with a poker-face--suspending the entire sophomore class in 1834 for "roughhousing" about the infamous Yardling "Rebellion Tree."

He also wrote a history of Boston.

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