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When did Nathaniel Prentiss Banks serve in the Massachusetts legislature?

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After serving in the Massachusetts legislature (1849-53), Banks entered Congress as a Democrat, was returned in 1855 as a Know-Nothing and became speaker of the House, and was reelected in 1857 as a Republican.

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