Erastus Worthington (October 8, 1779 – June 27, 1842) represented Dedham, Massachusetts in the Great and General Court.
[3][2] He worked as a lawyer until 1825 when the newly formed Norfolk Mutual Fire Insurance Company, which he had a large hand in creating, elected him its first secretary.
[3] In the autumn of 1840 he moved to Dayton, Ohio, but returned the following spring to Dedham and remained there until his death two years later.
[3] During the War of 1812, Worthington was active as a Republican, and during the administrations of Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren he was a Democrat.
[3] He was also an advocate of establishing an equity jurisdiction in the Massachusetts courts and published, anonymously, the first pamphlet in favor of it.