Biography
Representative from Vermont; born in Cheshire, New Haven County, Conn., May 27, 1784; graduated from Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vt., 1805; moved to Poultney, Rutland County, Vt.; studied law; was admitted to the bar and commenced practice in Castleton, Vt., in 1807; elected trustee of the Rutland County Grammar School in 1807; secretary to the Governor and council in 1807, 1809-1812, and 1815-1819; State's attorney for Rutland County, 1811-1813, 1815, and 1816; moved to Poultney in 1818; successfully contested as a Democratic Republican the election of Orsamus C. Merrill to the Sixteenth Congress; elected as a Democratic Republican to the Seventeenth Congress; reelected as an Adams-Clay Republican to the Eighteenth Congress; reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and to the succeeding Congress; and reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first and to the succeeding Congress and served from January 13, 1820, until his death in Baltimore, Md., April 15, 1831; chairman, Committee on Manufactures (Nineteenth through Twenty-first Congresses); interment in East Poultney Cemetery, East Poultney, Vt.
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