Tristam Burges (February 26, 1770 – October 13, 1853) was a U.S. Representative from Rhode Island, and great-great-uncle of Theodore Francis Green.

[1][2] He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1799[1] and commenced practice in Providence, Rhode Island.

[1] He was appointed chief justice of the Supreme Court of Rhode Island in May 1815, serving for just one year.

[4] He died on his estate, "Watchemoket Farm" in 1853 in the town of Seekonk, Massachusetts (in the portion of which that would later be given from Massachusetts to Rhode Island and be incorporated as East Providence, Rhode Island, from a Supreme Court order settling a boundary dispute between the two states).

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress