Charles Chapman (Connecticut)

Charles Chapman ( born June 21, 1799 in Newtown, Fairfield County, Connecticut; † August 7, 1869 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1851 and 1853 he represented the first electoral district of the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Chapman enjoyed a good education and studied at the Litchfield Law School Law thereafter. After his made ​​in 1820 admitted to the bar he began in 1827 in New Haven to practice in his new profession. In 1832 he moved to Hartford, where he edited the newspaper "New England Review".

Politically, Chapman was a member of the Whig party. In the years 1840, 1847 and 1848 he was elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. Between 1841 and 1848 he was United States Attorney for Connecticut. In 1848 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress. In the congressional elections of 1850 Chapman was a Whig candidate in the first election District of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1851 the successor to the Democrats Loren P. Waldo. But until March 3, 1853, he was able to spend only one term in Congress.

In 1854, Chapman competed unsuccessfully as a candidate of the temperance movement to the Office of the Governor of Connecticut. Later, Chapman was a member of the Democratic Party. For this party, he was 1862-1864 again deputy in the House of Representatives from Connecticut. He then worked again as a lawyer. Charles Chapman died in August 1869 in Hartford and was also buried there.

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