Holmes was a senator from Maine and was a Democratic Republican. He served from 1829 to 1833.
He was previously a senator from Maine as an Adams from 1820 to 1827; the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1819 to 1821; and the representative for Massachusetts’s 14th congressional district as a Republican from 1817 to 1819.
![Photo of Sen. John Holmes [D-ME, 1829-1833]](/static/legislator-photos/405590-200px.jpeg)
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
