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| | Thomas Dudley |
 | | DUDLEY, Thomas, colonial governor of Massachusetts, born in Northampton, England, in 1576; died in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 31 July 1652. |
 | | His son, Joseph Dudley, colonial governor of Massachusetts, born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 23 September 1647 ; died there, 2 April 1720, was graduated at Harvard in 1665 and studied theology, but, preferring a political career, became a representative in the general court and a magistrate in his native town in 1673. |
 | | He carried the doctrine of submission to royal and ministerial authority to extremes, and was said to be a "philosopher and a scholar, a divine and a lawyer, all combined. |
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