Chauncey Fitch Cleveland

Chauncey Fitch Cleveland ( born February 16, 1799 in Hampton or Canterbury, Connecticut, † June 6, 1887 in Hampton, Connecticut ) was an American politician and governor of the U.S. state of Connecticut. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Early years and political rise

Chauncey Fitch Cleveland was born on 16 February 1799 in Hampton or Canterbury, Connecticut. He attended community schools in Hampton and then taught from the age of fifteen myself later. The activity then he practiced until his twentieth year. Furthermore, Cleveland studied law at this time and was admitted to the bar in 1819. He began practicing in Hampton. Subsequently, he joined the Connecticut militia, where he went through all the ranks from a lowly Private to a Major General. Cleveland only decided in 1826 to go into politics. He was a candidate for a position in Connecticut House of Representatives ( engl. Connecticut 's House of Representatives ) and conquered. He was then still in 1827, 1828, 1832, 1835, 1836, 1838 and re-elected. In the years 1835 and 1836 he had held the office of speaker. He ran in 1838 and 1840 unsuccessfully for the United States Congress. He also had in 1832 held the office of the prosecutor, and 1838 of the Bank Commissioner. In 1841 he then moved to Norwich, Connecticut.

Governor of Connecticut

Cleveland won the 1842 Democratic governor nomination and was (139 to 68) chosen in the same year by a Legislativabstimmung governor of Connecticut. He was re-elected in 1843 for a second term. During his tenure, he advocated a Child Labor Protection Act ( engl. child labor law) that prohibits children under 14 years more than 10 hours per day to work, and for legislation that eliminates an imprisonment for debt. Further funds were during Cleveland's administration for a new lunatic asylum (English insane asylum ) approved, as well as protection laws for the protection of Jewish synagogues. It was also decided that the state is divided into four congressional districts. Cleveland failed in 1844 when a new re-election attempt in a parliamentary vote. He was on May 4, 1842 to May 1, 1844 for Governor of Connecticut.

Further CV

After leaving office, he returned to his law practice. Still, he remained on active service in the state. He was re-elected in 1847 in Connecticut's House of Representatives, where he was then worked until 1849. He also was elected to the 31st and the 32nd U.S. Congress. There he worked between 4 March 1849 3 March 1853. Then helped Cleveland Connecticut Republican Party and was set up in 1856, and in 1860 a delegate to the Republican National Convention (English Republican National Convention ). Later he returned to the Democratic Party. In 1861 he was a delegate to the Washington Peace Congress, which was intended to prevent the impending war. He was then in 1863, 1866 and re-elected in Connecticut's House of Representatives, where he held the office of Speaker, as well as in the earlier years. Then he dealt with agriculture and continued to practice as a lawyer.

Chauncey F. Cleveland died on June 6, 1887 and was buried in the South Hampton Cemetery.