David Plant

David Plant ( born March 29, 1783 in Stratford, Connecticut, † October 18, 1851 ) was an American lawyer and politician ( National Republican Party ).

Career

David Plant attended the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire and graduated in 1804 at Yale College. He studied law at the Litchfield Law School, was admitted to the bar in 1804 and then began to practice in Stratford on. Later he was a judge at the probate of Fairfield County. Plant also pursued a political career. He was 1817-1820 deputy in the House of Representatives from Connecticut, where he also served as Speaker. Then he sat in 1821 and 1822 in the Senate of Connecticut. Thereafter, he was elected Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut and has held this office 1823-1827. Plant was elected to the 20th U.S. Congress, where he served from March 4, 1827 to March 3, 1829. He decided in 1828 against a renewed candidacy for Congress and adopted by the end of his period of office work as a lawyer on.

He died in 1851 in Stratford, and was then buried in the Congregational Burying Ground.

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