Graham H. Chapin

Graham Hurd Chapin ( born February 10, 1799 in Salisbury, Connecticut, † September 8, 1843 in Mount Morris, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1835 and 1837 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Graham Hurd Chapin moved in 1817 to Lyons in Wayne County. At that time, the British -American War was about two years too late. In 1819 he graduated from Yale College. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1823, he began practicing in Lyons. Between 1826 and 1833 he was Guardianship and restructuring judge in Wayne County. During this time he was in 1829 and 1830 district attorney in Wayne County. 1833 zoger to Rochester, where he continued to practice as a lawyer. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1834 for the 24th Congress Chapin was in the 25th electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Samuel Clark on March 4, 1835. Chapin retired after the March 3, 1837 out of the Congress. He died about three years before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in Mount Morris in Livingston County.