Ebenezer Knowlton

Ebenezer Knowlton
Member of U.S. House of Representatives from Maine's 3rd district
In office March 4, 1855 – March 3, 1857
Preceded by	E. Wilder Farley
Succeeded by	Nehemiah Abbott
18th Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
In office 1846–1847
Preceded by	Moses Macdonald
Succeeded by	Hugh Dean McLellan
Member of the Maine House of Representatives
In office 1844–1850
Personal details
Born	(1815-12-06)6 December 1815 Pittsfield, New Hampshire, United States
Died	10 September 1874(1874-09-10) (aged 58) South Montville, Maine, US
Political party	Opposition Party
Other political affiliations	Republican Party
Occupation	Minister, Congressman

Ebenezer Knowlton (December 6, 1815 – September 10, 1874) was a U.S. Representative from Maine, and Free Will Baptist minister.

Born in Pittsfield, New Hampshire, Knowlton moved with his parents to South Montville, Maine, in 1825. He attended the China and Waterville Academies in Maine. He studied theology and entered the ministry as a Free Will Baptist.

Knowlton served as a member of the Maine House of Representatives from 1844 to 1850, and served as speaker in 1846.^[1] Knowlton was elected as an Opposition Party (a party transitioning between the Whigs and Republicans) candidate to the Thirty-fourth Congress from March 4, 1855 to March 3, 1857.^[2] He became an early member of the Republican Party and was a lifelong supporter of abolitionism and the temperance movement.

Knowlton served as trustee of Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. Knowlton also served as a trustee of Colby College and Maine Central Institute, and after the Civil War he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau in Beaufort, South Carolina.

He was a corporator of the Morning Star, a Free Will Baptist newspaper, and was president of the Foreign Missions Board. Knowlton continued his ministerial duties until his death.

Knowlton died in South Montville, Maine on September 10, 1874.

• Ebenezer Knowlton House

• United States Congress. "Ebenezer Knowlton (id: K000294)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Ebenezer Knowlton at Find a Grave
• Nathan Franklin Carter, The Native Ministry of New Hampshire, (1906)