Baldwin was active in the Free Soil and anti-slavery movements . He edited anti-slavery journals the " Republican " ( published in Hartford ) and the " Commonwealth " ( published in Boston ) , and from 1859 became the owner and editor of the " Worcester Spy , " what George Frisbie Hoar called " one of the most influential papers in New England . " From this time onwards Baldwin was resident in Worcester , Massachusetts . He was a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention , where Abraham Lincoln was nominated as Republican presidential candidate , and in 1863 he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for Massachusetts 's 8th congressional district . A " close friend " of both Charles Sumner and Henry Wilson , Senators from Massachusetts , Baldwin served for three terms in the House , promoting full equal rights for black Americans in the wake of the Civil War . In 1869 , when George F. Hoar was nominated as the Republican candidate for his seat , Baldwin returned full-time to his journalistic and anthropological work . He edited the Worcester Spy until his death in 1883 . In 1867 Baldwin was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society
1860 Republican National Convention
1860 Republican National Convention
John Denison Baldwin